Walden Pond - by Patty Nash (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In Walden Pond, Patty Nash probes and plays with the first-person pronoun, investigating the construction of national identities and the way nations construct the identities of individuals in turn. From the medieval merchant town of Lü beck to the high desert of central Oregon, the Adriatic Sea to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nash explores and interrogates the historical forces that shape her -- and our -- " I" . Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden (1854), declared, " I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." Nash responds: " Content am I."

About the Author

Patty Nash's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Sixth Finch, West Branch, DIAGRAM and elsewhere. She received MFAs in poetry and literary translation from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Iowa. She lives in Berlin, Germany.