The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America

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University of Illinois Press, 1996 - 252 pages
The Lonely Other chronicles the life of a woman constantly facing new amazements. In Wound Chevy at Wounded Knee (Best of the Best American Essays (1994)) Diana Hume Georgia recounts how she lived a trapped and futile life as a white teenage bride on an Indian reservation. As an adult she confronts drunken hunters outside her isolated cabin; she faces her fear of heights by climbing in the White Mountains; she unflinchingly delves into her long-standing engagement with Anne Sexton's poetry, and into her own father's suicide. Always she wonders: Can women learn to travel alone, on roads and in their daily lives, without fear.

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Love Lost on the Road
3
Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee
9
The Bear within at Yellowstone
23
Losing Time at Lamar
30
Sex and Death at Devil Canyon
40
or How I Turned Chicken
49
Women in the Woods
57
Words You Have Heard in a Language You Might Know
70
Cactus Poetry Dung Beetles and Wild Pigs
134
Alamogordo and White Sands
142
The Hermit of Omigod Hotsprings
146
BrainDead and BigChilled in Southern California
150
The History of the World according to Andrew Joseph Picard
157
Froot Loops in Yosemite
160
Thinking toward Georgia
166
Dreaming the Breasts
171

A Woman Rallying for the Road
74
The Road to St Marys
86
The Beach as Nursery
93
Anne Sextons Island God
98
Wearing a Human face
115
The Lonely Other
118
Sacred Space Igneous Privacies
122
Mississippi Harvesters
126
Wounded Knee at Bondcliff
175
A Woman Alone with Light
188
Blowing in the Wind
197
Easter Morning Meditation
213
Through Purgatory to the Silence if the Lambs
216
A Walking Meditation
230
Postscript
244
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