TY - BOOK AU - Woiwode,Larry ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A step from death: a memoir AV - PS3573.O4 Z473 2008eb U1 - 813/.54B 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Berkeley, CA PB - Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West KW - Woiwode, Larry. KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - I: Reckonings -- In the lion's mouth -- A temporary escape -- Erasure -- Homestead -- Light in the land -- Sonship -- Child as father -- Interim -- The skinny -- The film hits -- II: Swing points -- Father as child -- In community -- A poet's place -- Not giving in -- Giving it away -- Nutshell kingdom -- In another place; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - The author of the 1969 classic What I'm Going to Do, I Think and the acclaimed Beyond the Bedroom Wall begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler--the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode is the first skein in a rich tapestry of memories, from colorful snippets of Woiwode's time in New York as a young writer working with the late, great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, and finally to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching.--From publisher description UR - https://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10279846 ER -