About That Life, Barry Lopez and the Art of Community, Barry Lopez and the Art of Community

Author

Cheney

Year

2023

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-68571-072-9

Link

Last Update

23-May-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; American Studies

Description

Three days before Barry Lopez died, I rediscovered my notes from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where in the summer of 2000 I was a participant in Lopez’s workshop, and where in many ways my adult life as a writer began. I thought I had lost the notes many years ago, but they had been with me the whole time, secreted in the middle of a notebook with unrelated items at front and back.

I was twenty-four years old that summer, and lost. I had grown up in rural New Hampshire, and I struggled to find an identity for myself,...