Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories Form a Life

by Richard Hague

Overview

Richard Hague's essays and stories reveal a life along the edge of industry and Nature in the industrial Ohio Valley. Nominated for a National Book Award and a Finalist for the Associated Writing Program's Creative Nonfiction Award.

About the Author:

Richard Hague lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and teaches at Purcell Marian High School. He is also a poet and editor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933087446
Publisher:	Bottom Dog Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Working Lives Series
Pages:	181
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1
	Shitepokes, Night Fish, And The Jumping Buckeyes	5
	Basement	10
	Aunt Aggie, a story	17
	Heaven, 1957	24
	Small Bright Things, And Flash, And Glint, And Glitter	26
	Menagerie	31
	The Snake Man	38
	Carp, And Other Lessons	42
	To Live Like An Animal, a story	53
	Inventing Ironhead	61
	Bike	74
	Death In The Afternoon	79
	Needles, a story	82
	Breaking, a story	86
	The Dance, a story	91
	Old Woman River	95
Part 2
	Mowing The Bald	108
	A Porch In The Country	134
	The Line, a story	141
	All The Way To China, a story	146
	Pool In The Hinterlands	152
	Author Biographical Sketch	182

Editorial Reviews

Connection to nature is a theme running throughout Hague's work....What makes the reading of Milltown Natural most pleasurable is the lyrical description of the commonplace.

American Book Review