Description: "This volume includes many ruminations on nature, the nature of writing, mortality, and human folly and near folly, rendered in prose that is often poetic and deeply entwined in the author's intertextual web of influences, which vary from low brow to a very high forehead indeed" --
Brief description:
Born in Nashville, Sam Pickering is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and is the author of over twenty-five books of essays, studies, and travel narratives.
Review Quotes:
"Happy Vagrancy is in many ways about essays themselves--essays as means of thinking, means of gathering, and offering nuggets of thought. These essays break into song and story, but they are not bound by tune or plot. There is something about them--a radiance--beyond structure, arc, or conclusion."--Philip Brady, author of By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard