Table of Contents

1. The Way In, An Introduction; 2. Traces; 3. Bread and Butter; 4. Surrendered; 5. Thirty Shades of White; 6. Pilgrimage; 7. In the Corn; 8. Enclosures; 9. A Bit of Land; 10. The Fence; 11. Tending; 12. Souvenir; 13. Lingering Curiosities; 14. Departure Moon; 15. Visiting Frederic; 16. This Creek

Promotional Information

Offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape

About the Author

Lisa Knopp is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the author of Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, Field of Vision, and The Nature of Home: A Lexicon of Essays (available in a Bison Books edition).

Reviews

"Lisa Knopp explores the inner life--subjectivity--with grace, compassion, and a love for landscapes. This book brings together two of the major currents in creative nonfiction--memoir and nature writing--from the mature perspective of a writer dedicated to careful inhabitation. Like those geodes that open this fine collection, Interior Places sparkles all the way through." Elizabeth Dodd, author of Prospect:Journeys and Landscapes "Lisa Knopp is one of the finest essayists in the Midwest and the nation. In this moving and informative book, she takes us on a journey into the heart of places emotional and geographical, personal and universal. From the graveside of a beloved grandmother to the resurrection of native prairie, Knopp's transformative vision reminds us that the difference between soil and soul is only one letter." John Price, author of Not Just Any Land and Man Killed by Pheasant