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Homecomings: A Writer’s Memoir

Contents

    I. Indiana Origins
  1. Discovering Lucien Stryk's Heartland
  2. John Ciardi and "Jabberwocky" in the Indiana Cornfields
  3. Ernest Sandeen and Poetry at Notre Dame
  4. William Stafford and the Midwestern German Connection
  5. Dreaming of James Wright of Ohio
  6. Rediscovering the American Heartland through European Masters
  7. David Ignatow's Sense of Community
  8. Joining Hands with Artist Alfred Van Loen
  9. Under William Cullen Bryant's Open Skies
  10. Walt Whitman in the Black Forest

    II. Exploring German Roots
  11. German as Gateway to Great-Aunt Tillie's World
  12. Helping Southern Indiana German Immigrants Tell Their Stories
  13. Some Indiana Germans in the Civil War
  14. Discovering the Treasure of Franconian Legends
  15. How I Came to Translate Early Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
  16. A German-American Son's Perspective on Filiopietism
  17. William Heyen's Obsessive Ghosts: Erika and the Holocaust
  18. Pruning for Shade with William Heyen
  19. The Complications in Making an American Book of Poems About Germany
  20. A Southern Indiana German Childhood
  21. Indiana Landscape and German Heritage as Birthright
  22. Poetry and Spiritual Waters
  23. Place, German Roots, and the Language of Poetry

    III. Indiana Return
  24. Why I Came Back to Indiana
  25. Harvesting Your Ripest Moments: Writing Memoir
  26. An Indiana German Childhood in Southern Indiana
  27. Collaborating with Photographer Darryl Jones
  28. Writing the Catholic Boy Blues Childhood Abuse Poems
  29. On Two Books by Theologian Matthew Fox
  30. Writing the Shrinking the Monster Childhood Abuse Recovery Memoir
  31. A Survivor’s Response to the Film “Spotlight”
  32. Poetry and the Blues
  33. Going on the Mississippi Blues Trail
  34. “The Same Old Black Boy with the Same Old Blues”: The Poetry of Etheridge Knight
  35. Jack London Leas of Jasper, Indiana
  36. John Groppe of New York City and Rensselaer, Indiana
  37. James Whitcomb Riley at the Indiana Bicentennial
  38. Liza Zaran’s Dear Bob Dylan Prose Poem Letters
  39. Bob Dylan in the Long Island Rain and Helmut Haberkamm at the Slippery Noodle Blues Club
  40. Three Pieces on Place for the Indiana Bicentennial
  41. A Statement on Where Words Come from and a Poem on Localism
  42. Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Journey
  43. Letter from a Star Above Southern Indiana

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Krapf Homestead

 

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