| Author/Contributor(s): | Vivian, Robert |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Date: | 11/01/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In his second collection of essays Vivian finds his occasions in midwestern towns and European cities. He looks for--and sometimes stumbles upon--the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the Jewish dead in a long-neglected cemetery in Poland to a dog slaughtered on a highway fronting the Black Sea to gunshots ringing out in rural Michigan. Again and again Vivian probes what such phenomena suggest about the times we live in--and what they share with every time that ever was.