Writer on the Rocks: Moving the Impossible

by Linda Tatelbaum

What happens when a writer runs out of words? Linda Tatelbaum's meditation on ambition and despair tracks her ascent from rock bottom, the wordless place. "English has failed me. Body is the only way... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965442837
• ISBN13: 9780965442831
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: About Time Press. Appleton, Maine
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

So much heart!

This is a writer with so much heart! I wouldn't live off the land if you held a gun to my head, yet I was deeply inspired by this woman's life and work. Tatelbaum presents her unusual lifestyle--she's a longtime homesteader--as a metaphor for creativity: both its curses and its pleasures. A wonderful book, especially if you're a writer or painter or musician--someone who knows how hard it is to keep going in the face of rejection.

inspiring piece of writing

Linda Tatelbaum has a real gift with language- of taking the most mundane tasks of ordinary country life and transforming them into something that provides tremendous meaning and inspiration. The format of the book- much like a college curricula- is both stimulating and progressively enriching. One does not need to be a "homesteader" or "back to the lander" to appreciate the true meaning of "moving rocks"