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Written and published over a period of forty years, the essays in Phillip Sterling's Lessons in Geography chronicle how his formative years in Northwest Lower Michigan not only inspired him to be a writer but also profoundly influenced his creative and critical perspectives. Diverse in form, the essays are nonetheless unified in theme: how the geography of a place-the forests, shores, and lakes of Michigan-plays a role in one's education, imparting knowledge of the wider, human world.

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"""Like earlier Michigan poet/essayists such as Theodore Roethke and Jim Harrison, Sterling, in these lovely essays, explores both the external and interior dichotomies of settled/unsettled and domestic/wild. . . . a book about a poet's sometimes perilous coming of age, and of aging with grace and acceptance."" -Sue William Silverman, author of Acetylene Torch Songs ""Sterling brings wide-ranging insight, an in-depth sense of history, self-effacing wisdom, and the marvelous double vision of the true memoirist to these essays."" -Anne-Marie Oomen, author of The Long Fields, Michigan Author Award Winner ""Rich with language, alive with memory, and moving with the experiences of a rural everyday Michigan life. "" -M. L. Liebler, author of I Want to Be Once ""Mixes keenly observed experiences with fresh perspectives, all rendered with a poet's sensitive precision."" -Nan Sanders Pokerwinski, author of Mango Rash"

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Phillip Sterling is a poet and fiction writer. His books include Mutual Shores (2000), In Which Brief Stories Are Told (2011), Amateur Husbandry (2019), and Local Congregation (2023). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, two Senior Fulbright Lectureships (Belgium and Poland), a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and artist residencies at Isle Royale National Park and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He lives in Lowell, Michigan.

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