An Inexact Science of the Heart

A collection of 21 essays. Titles include: Finding Poems; The Gospel of Thomas;  Saturn and the Flying Boy; On Not Being Southern; The Soul, Herself Surprised;My Mother, Remembering; Seeing the Cézannes; Drawing and Talent; The Dear Love of Comrades; An Interview with Lynda Barry; Teaching/Writing; Feeding the Ghosts of Christmas Past; August 1974; The Enigma of Healing; Bardo, Texas;  Palm Springs: Bonfires of the Banalities; Don't Shoot, I'm Canadian;  Jill Johnston: An Unoffici