false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171590222m/108680.jpg 108680 4 After 20 years of living in the "Great American Outback," as <I>Newsweek</I> magazine once designated the Dakotas, poet Kathleen Norris (<I>The Cloister Walk</I>) came to understand the fascinating ways that people become metaphors for the land they inhabit. When trying to understand the polarizing contradictions that exist in the Dakotas between "hospitality and insularity, change and inertia, stability and instability.... between hope and despair, between open hearts and closed minds," Norris draws a map. "We are at the point of transition between east and west in the United States," she explains, "geographically and psychically isolated from either coast, and unlike either the Midwest or the desert west."<p> Like Terry Tempest Williams (<I>Refuge</I>), Norris understands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins to blur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As a result, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for in school. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussion on the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including its Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live such complicated and simple lives. <I>--Gail Hudson</I> 1709324 1993 Dakota: A Spiritual Geography total:614|5:202|4:259|3:118|2:29|1:6| 614 2464 823 87 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 22:34:10 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 16:11:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sun Feb 15 05:15:46 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 05:43:32 -0800 2009
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My ancestors came from Norway and settled in the Dakotas. I can remember my ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 11 11:14:46 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 11:19:31 -0700 2009 I felt that I was spiritually enriched in a new way - able to seek and to appreciate silence and to see a beau...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 27 14:25:49 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 14:26:26 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=108680