Herbes de Provence -- In the sacred precincts -- Of work and dreams -- Jack rabbit -- Pagan dust -- "J'ai un crayon" -- Changelings -- Of faucets and cock crows -- Spring hath sprung -- A hole in the wall -- A home of one's home -- Images of Provence...
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Herbes de Provence -- In the sacred precincts -- Of work and dreams -- Jack rabbit -- Pagan dust -- "J'ai un crayon" -- Changelings -- Of faucets and cock crows -- Spring hath sprung -- A hole in the wall -- A home of one's home -- Images of Provence -- Deaths and entrances -- Belonging -- Weaving and unraveling Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world are etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery - if not reinvention - of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile
