{"product_id":"writing-from-the-center-0253211433","title":"Writing from the Center","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253211433\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Scott Russell Sanders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry.\" -Library Journal\"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . \" -Publishers Weekly\"Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths.\" -The Christian Science Monitor\"[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places.\" -Body Mind SpiritWriting from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual-and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal.\"The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me-fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground.\" -Scott Russell Sanders, from the book\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51702837739808,"sku":"NEW0253211433","price":23.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81p_p6Cy7SL.jpg?v=1779388585","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/writing-from-the-center-0253211433","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}