From Where We Stand

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Talls From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with placesand the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs, Tall set out to make a true home for herself in the landscape that circumstance had brought herthe Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In a mosaic of personal anecdotes, historical sketches, and lyrical meditations, she interweaves her own story with the story of this place and its peoplefrom the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois, to European settlers, to the many utopians who sensed and were inspired by a spiritual resonance here. This edition includes an introduction by William Kittredge and a foreword by Stephen Kuusisto, both highlighting the books significance and Talls exquisite skill in tracing the relationship between homelands and storytelling.