What the Stones RememberWhat the Stones Remember
a Life Rediscovered
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Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st Trumpeter ed, All copies in use.Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st Trumpeter ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsIn this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home, tending his garden, where he cast his mind back over his life, searching for the memories he'd tried to drown in vodka. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and his garden's life has become inseparable from his own. A new bloom on a plant, a skirmish among the birds, the way a tree bends in the wind, and the slow, measured change of seasons invariably bring to his mind an episode from his eventful past. What the Stones Remember is the emerging chronicle of Lane's attempt to face those memories, as well as his new self—to rediscover his life. In this powerful and beautifully written book, Lane offers readers an unflinching and unsentimental account of coming to one's senses in the presence of nature.
A distinguished poet and long-time gardener reflects on the healing power of nature as he explains how the gardening life has become inseparable from his own in this part memoir, part homage to the possibility of renewal. 30,000 first printing.
A distinguished poet and long-time gardener reflects on the healing power of nature as he explains how the gardening life has become inseparable from his own in this part memoir, part homage to the possibility of renewal. 30,000 first printing.
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