Personal Essay

American Essays

Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actionsa walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchardcan be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Maddenilluminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.

The infinite suggestiveness of common things -- Laughter -- Remember death -- Garlic -- Ego vici mundum -- Gravity and distance -- Panis angelicus -- Asymptosy -- Singing -- Hepatitis -- Finity. 2010, Association for Mormon Letters, Personal Essay Award winner

PS 3613. A28355 2010

xv, 204 pages

English