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Beautifully designed and showcasing the best of both well-known writers and rising stars, Tin House has pulled out of the pack to gain a reputation as the most important of contemporary literary magazines. Outsider literature, like outsider art and music, has become increasingly popular in our corporatized, consumerist society. The Spring theme issue of Tin House examines this trend in depth. Subtitled “Off the Grid,” this special issue includes powerful work by or about people or institutions that function — or don’t — out of the bounds of “normal” society. Highlighting a unique kind of raw creativity unmediated by formal training or standard narrative strategies, the issue includes a “Lost & F… More >>
Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid
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Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid
Posted 14 Jun 2010
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The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
Posted 03 May 2010
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- ISBN13: 9781584657040
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the “back to the land” movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither statement nor protest: they simply had built their house too far from the road and could not afford to bring in power lines. Over the years, they settled in to a life that centered on what Thoreau called “the essential facts.”