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A Location in the Upper Peninsula: Poems, Stories, Essays
A Location in the Upper Peninsula: Poems, Stories, Essays
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About A Location in the Upper Peninsula
A Location in the Upper Peninsula contains 33 poems, 4 essays, and 6 short stories. It is readable but literary. It’s deep but simple. It’s interesting because it’s about an exotic and somewhat unknown region of the U.S., the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The author is an award-winning novelist and poet, from Ishpeming. Most other authors who have written in a literary manner about this region are not natives of the region, but “trolls,” from places below the Mackinac Bridge, who sometimes treat and write about the land and the people as if they are interesting exhibits in an odd museum, rather than as rooted trees in a northern forest. Piirto is tied to the land and the milieu of the Upper Peninsula with a fierceness as essential as the umbilical cord, as ethnic as a full-blooded Finn can be, as familiar with the regional dialects and the culture as any old guy at a deer camp, as any miner in an underground iron mine, as any graduate of the local state university, as any English teacher in the local high school.
A Location in the Upper Peninsula contains 33 poems, 4 essays, and 6 short stories. It is readable but literary. It’s deep but simple. It’s interesting because it’s about an exotic and somewhat unknown region of the U.S., the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The author is an award-winning novelist and poet, from Ishpeming. Most other authors who have written in a literary manner about this region are not natives of the region, but “trolls,” from places below the Mackinac Bridge, who sometimes treat and write about the land and the people as if they are interesting exhibits in an odd museum, rather than as rooted trees in a northern forest. Piirto is tied to the land and the milieu of the Upper Peninsula with a fierceness as essential as the umbilical cord, as ethnic as a full-blooded Finn can be, as familiar with the regional dialects and the culture as any old guy at a deer camp, as any miner in an underground iron mine, as any graduate of the local state university, as any English teacher in the local high school.
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