In the Mind's Eye: Essays across the Animate World

360 Pages·2008·2.19 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Dodd

In the Mind’s Eye
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Elizabeth Dodd
In the Mind’s Eye
Essays across the Animate World
university of nebraska press
lincoln and london
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Acknowledgments for previously published materials appear on p. ix, which constitutes an
extension of the copyright page.
© 2008 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline, 1962–
In the mind’s eye : essays across the animate world / Elizabeth Dodd.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
isbn 978-0-8032-1566-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
I. Title.
ps3554.o317715 2008
814'.54—dc22
2008004132
Set in Quadraat by Kim Essman.
Designed by Ray Boeche.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Setting Forth in Their Footprints 1
Memory’s Hills 15
Cold Meditations 36
Walden, Woods 51
Cañonicity 60
In the Mind’s Eye 91
Here the Animal 110
La Descente 126
In Situ 148
Fragments 169
The Shannon Creek Eagles 194
Bones of Fear 217
Aspects 239
In Such a Homecoming 265
The Kingdom 282
The Scribe in the Woods 299
Selected Bibliography 335
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank the many editors who published versions of
these essays in the following journals or books:
“Setting Forth in Their Footprints” in The Southern Review.
“Memory’s Hills,” which appeared as “Hills of Memory,” in
Columbia Journal.
“Walden, Woods” in The Laurel Review.
“Cañonicity” and “Here the Animal” in Southwest Review.
“Fragments” in The Georgia Review and Landscapes with Figures:
The Nonfi ction of Place, edited by Robert Root. Reprinted by per-
mission of University of Nebraska Press.
“The Shannon Creek Eagles” in the Flint Hills Review.
“Bones of Fear” and “The Artists of La Grotte Chauvet” (por-
tion of “La Descente”) in Notre Dame Magazine.
“In Such a Homecoming” in Good Roots: Writers Refl ect on Grow-
ing Up in Ohio, edited by Lisa Watts. Reprinted by permission of
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio (www.ohioswallow.com).
“The Scribe in the Woods” originally appeared in Fourth Genre,
published by Michigan State University Press.
I gratefully acknowledge the various agencies and persons
who assisted me in my research:
Kansas State University’s Offi ce of Research and Sponsored
Programs, for small research grant support; The Center for the
Understanding of Origins at Kansas State University and my
department head, Linda Brigham, for summer fellowship sup-
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