Small Visions From A Timeless Place

Small Visions from a Timeless PlaceThese paragraphs are, quite frankly, an experiment. They are impressionistic vignettes--or, with luck, prose poems--having to do with the American South, the place where I was born and where I hope to die. My method, or lack of it, was simply to cut in particular memories and impressions and to go with them wherever they took me.The general plan of these pieces demands a good deal of the reader. I ask him, first of all, to give up his external identity--that is...