{"product_id":"the-far-corner-isbn-9781582435848","title":"The Far Corner","description":"John Daniel writes from the ground he walks on and the landscape he inhabits in the northwest corner of America, spinning narratives that seek to discover how he belongs to the land and to the wholeness of life itself. He takes his readers to beaches, old–growth forests, sagebrush steppe–lands, and deep river canyons — wild places, and places scarred by human exploitation — and leads us too through inner terrains where he explores mortality, creativity, and spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth lyrical and informative, these essays are diverse in focus, various in length, and inventive in form — one is constructed as a journal, two as linear montages. By turns playful, awed, cantankerous, and tender in tone, they deliver themselves in a style of high informality, welcoming readers to join the author as he journeys through some of the puzzlements, sadnesses, and small glories of living. This collection extends John Daniel's earlier work, \u003ci\u003eThe Trail Home\u003c\/i\u003e, in the personal essay form.Praise for John Daniel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Far Corner\u003c\/i\u003e makes such good company because the writing is patient with what it wants to discuss. It thinks, recognizes nuance and includes it rather than dismissing it. The result is a view (of rivers, logging, Wallace Stegner, nonfiction prose) that's layered rather than simplistic and accurate rather than glib. John Daniel's essays sound a voice that wants to tell the truth and that finds out–and makes clear–how complicated and mysterious an effort this can be.\" —Lex Runciman, Professor of English, Linfield College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As beautifully wrought as it is truthful, \u003ci\u003eRogue River Journal\u003c\/i\u003e is a Walden for our time.\"  —Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards Committee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John Daniel has quietly established himself over the past decade as one of the premier writers on the West Coast.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John Daniel loves wilderness of all kinds, and gets out into it every chance, but it is more than scenery he is after. He has a streak of mysticism, some generalized religious sense, that is stimulated by the natural world, by physical effort, as in climbing, and by participation in the sounds and smells and seasons of nature . . . his essays will win him devoted readers.\" —Wallace Stegner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Daniel's writing is known for its clarity.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Daniel\u003c\/b\u003e's books of prose, including \u003ci\u003eRogue River Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Far Corner\u003c\/i\u003e, have won three Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and have been supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts among other grants and awards. His essays and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eWilderness Magazine, Orion, Sierra, Terrain.org, The North American Review, Poetry, The Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals and anthologies. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he has taught as a writer–in–residence at colleges and universities across the country.  Earlier in life he was a logger, hod carrier, railroader, and rock–climbing instructor. Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302289854693,"sku":"NP9781582435848","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582435848.jpg?v=1767739296","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-far-corner-isbn-9781582435848","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}