Flesh and Stones: Field Notes from a Finite World Contributor(s): Shoemaker, Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933964022 ISBN-13: 9781933964027 Publisher: Bottom Dog Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature - Philosophy | Movements - Transcendentalism - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Series: Harmony Memoir |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged |
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Publisher Description: In this book of creative nonfiction set in Michigan, Jan Shoemaker shares her quest and her vision. The lovely writing is also poiinted in its questioning. Pieces treat Nature, relationships, teaching, age, love. Most of these essays have been previously published in fine literary magazines. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shoemaker, Jan: - Jan Shoemaker grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Shortly after finishing her B.A. in English at Michigan State University, she moved to Seattle where she waited tables at the Pike Place Market and wrote poems while she rode ferries around Puget Sound. In the years that followed, she wrote poems while waitressing on the Maine coast and in Rhode Island. Eventually, she returned to East Lansing to be closer to her family and make a career in education. She has been teaching high school in mid-Michigan for twenty-seven years, first for the Diocese of Lansing and currently at a public high school outside the city. She sees her real imprint on her school's curriculum in the World's Religions class affording her students field trips to synagogues and churches and mosques, as well as a Hindu Temple, and a Buddhist monastery. She is a recipient of the Greater Lansing United Nation Association's Loy LaSalle Award for outstanding contributions to Global Education and International Understanding. In addition to teaching, she is a part-time bookseller at independently owned and run Schuler Books in Okemos, Michigan. Her work has been featured on public radio, anthologized, and published in many magazines and journals including River Teeth, The Sun, Fourth Genre, Colorado Review, Upstreet, and Sufi Journal. She earned an MFA at Ashland University. This is her first book. |