Hallow This Ground - (Break Away Books) by Colin Rafferty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Rafferty blends the travel essay with the lyric, the memoir with the analytic, in this meditation on the ways personal histories intersect with History, and how those intersections affect the way we understand and interact with Place.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, <i>Hallow This Ground</i> revolves around monuments and memorials--physical structures that mark the intersection of time and place. In the ways they invite us to interact with them, these sites teach us to recognize our ties to the past. Colin Rafferty explores places as familiar as his hometown of Kansas City and as alien as the concentration camps of Poland in an attempt to understand not only our common histories, but also his own past, present, and future. Rafferty blends the travel essay with the lyric, the memoir with the analytic, in this meditation on the ways personal histories intersect with History, and how those intersections affect the way we understand and interact with Place.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In this riveting debut collection of lyric essays . . . the author delves deep into the heart of past atrocities while probing the motivations of the living to memorialize, and he comes to some provocative conclusions. . . . Though fixed on what remains of some of history's darkest moments, Rafferty's essays, both gripping and wonderfully reflective, illuminate.</p>-- "Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Colin Rafferty teaches creative writing at the University of Mary Washington. His website is colinrafferty.com.</p>
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