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RECOVERING PLACE Mark C. Taylor Reflections on Stone Hill RECOVERING PLACE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK ii RECOVERING PLACE Mark C.Taylor Reflections on Stone Hill WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK C. TAYLOR Columbia University Press This book was published with the support of the Institute Publishers Since 1893 for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, New York Chichester, West Sussex the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Herbert A. Allen. cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2014 Columbia University Press All rights reserved “Nowhere Man.” © 1965 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Taylor, Mark C., 1945– Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Recovering place : reflections on Stone Hill / Mark C. Taylor ; “The Real World” and “The Stone’s Prayer,” both from Kevin Hart, photographs by Mark C. Taylor. Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2002). Reprinted by pages cm permission of the publisher. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-231-16498-6 (cloth : alk. paper) “River Stone,” from Kevin Hart, Morning Knowledge. Copyright © 2011 by ISBN 978-0-231-53644-8 (e-book) Kevin Hart. Published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 1. Place (Philosophy) I. Title. IN 46556. Reprinted by permission of the poet and the publisher. B105.P53T39 2014 818’.603—dc23 2013027561 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in Canada c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 References to Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs Cover image: Mark C. Taylor that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Cover and book design: Lisa Hamm For all those who allow time to linger on Stone Hill He’s a real nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his plans for nobody. Doesn’t have a point of view, Knows not where he’s going to, Isn’t he a bit like you and me? John Lennon, “nowhere Man” c i IanhccarlcAu l a byleti r uPclascbeO esneS ytriD reporpmI dMeatkteor o rOCr gbaenWi c e MdisattuerO i a ln e Op Closed Inside Grid StraiogFht Proper Clean Re ecapS elbaluclaC n l a iretammI cirte m oeG mr ason Transparenc y Moder CONTENTS Introduction 1 Night Vision 47 Wildflowers 76 Inhuman 106 Silence 133 Stone Hill 7 Gardens 48 Infinity 78 Abandonment 107 Solitude 134 Capital 11 Placement 51 Invisibility 79 Cultivation 108 Waste 135 Globalization 12 Folly 52 Holes 80 Practice 109 Pyramid 136 Modern 15 Abstraction 53 Shadows 81 Raking 110 Pit 137 Mobility 16 Body 54 Near 82 Walking 111 Sign 138 Displacement 17 Flesh 55 Tracks 83 Stones 112 Sacrifice 139 Place 18 Parasite 56 Ghosts 84 Granite 113 Burial 141 Non-Place 20 Sense 57 Not 86 Marble 114 Bones 143 Orientation 21 Color 58 Distraction 87 Moraines 115 Relics 144 Posthuman 22 Touch 59 Boredom 88 River Stone 116 Death 146 Nihilism 25 Smell 60 Slowness 89 Walling 117 Prayer 147 Project 26 Apprehension 61 Revelation 91 Elemental 118 Creativity 149 Philosophy 29 Thinking 62 Fuzzy 92 Earth 121 Economies 150 ne�us 31 Surface 63 Compliance 93 Air 122 Waiting 151 � 33 Seaming 64 Time 94 Wind 123 Idleness 153 God 34 Appearing 65 Complacency 96 Fire 124 Dwelling 154 Art 36 Human 66 Snow 98 Water 125 Contentment 155 Craft 38 Real 67 Winter 99 Rain 126 Imagination 39 Grace 69 Spring 100 Ice 127 NOTES 157 Disfiguring 40 Bliss 70 Summer 102 Wood 128 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 159 Faults 41 Point 71 Fall 103 Forest 129 Dawn 42 Particularity 73 Excess 104 Flows 130 Night 45 Photographing 74 Indifference 105 HardSoft 132
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