Distance & Direction

About this book

An engaging blend of personal essay and public speculation about our attachments to people and landscape. Judith Kitchens essays are lyrical and affecting meditations on placethose places to which we go back and the bittersweet ones to which we can never return. A Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments. Blended with intelligent speculation on national history and literary legacy these exquisite pieces contain tender and lucidly detailed homages to Fred Astaires hands Kitchens aging father the color blue and familiar and dreamed-about places.