A Year in Place

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Summary: As unique as it is captivating
Review: Scott Olsen and Bret Lott invited a dozen of their literary friends to take on particular calendar month in the place they call home and write about it. The results were compiled in A Year In Place and offer a wealth of new writing which is as unique as it is captivating. The individual pieces include Dorothy Barresi's Earthquake Weather (January); Douglas Carlson's Walking and Falling (February); Peggy Shumaker's Black Branches Taking on Snow (March); Naomi Shihab Nye's No Fooling--April in Texas (April); Michael Martone's Racing in Place: 33 Hoosier Haiku (May); Rick Bass' The Green Hours (June); Diane Glancy's A Journal of July (July); Kim Barnes' The Ashes of August (August); Katharine Coles' Running in Place (September); Elizabeth Dodd's Underground (October); John Lane's The Inheritance of Autumn (November); and W.D. Wetherell's Hills Like White Hills (December). Completing this fascinating, highly recommended literary experiment are "Contributor Notes" and "Editor Notes".