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The Cabin A North Woods Memoir eBook Steven D Fortney
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With a felicitous mix of whimsy, gin, and poetry, The Cabin is a world to get lost in as four men create more than a summer shack in northern Wisconsin. Even readers who have never trudged through underbrush or fished for trout will be fascinated by a story that backtracks through woods and waters, memories and merriment, flaws and blunderings. And then there is the meadow – that magic meadow, with its constant and absorbing surprise of life and sound, which conveys the insistent power of this book.
The Cabin A North Woods Memoir eBook Steven D Fortney
Arthur Dewey writes on the book’s back cover: “With a felicitous mix of whimsy, gin, and poetry, The Cabin is a world to get lost in.” And having read Steven D. Fortney’s "The Cabin, A North Woods Memoir," I heartily agree.Fortney, an established poet in his own right, gives us more than a yarn about spending time in the North Woods (of Wisconsin)—and his poetic qualities are readily seen in his tersely written prose. This book is a homage to his time spent there, the others who are involved, and their experiences simply relating to Mother Nature and to each other.
Whimsical, yes, and delightfully so. His penchant for recording (and recalling) those experiences (and adventures) makes for peaceful reading, of pondering contentedly. His love of the outdoors is quite evident. Illustrations by Richard Fendrick add greatly to the overall effect.
“Back to nature” and “saving the environment” aren’t what he’s selling(although those themes can’t help but come through), as he seems more involved in celebrating life and time in the North Woods, along with wild berries, wild bears, fresh fish, and fresh air. A delightful read.
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The Cabin A North Woods Memoir eBook Steven D Fortney Reviews
The Cabin is simultaneously poetic in its leanings, penetrating with its insights, and funny as it spins tales of rivers, fish, and meadow-wandering. If you've never been "up north," you'll soon find yourself wanting to buy and construct your own cathedral woods getaway, and if you have been up north, then you'll see yourself behind every bear sighting. Fortney's language soars as he describes the flora and fauna of the woods, rivers and meadows surrounding Oulu, and the stories of Eugene and Jim pull heart strings in ways that the best (true story) novels do. Find a comfortable chair and settle in for a great read (and wonderful illustrations by Richard Fendrick).
Steve Fortney’s memoir, The Cabin, may be read as a metaphor both for life and for life’s possibility of community. Like Fortney’s quartet of young men, who over the course of the book become middle-aged, then achieve maturity, we all must become and face the persons we are. We must confront the world we are thrown into. We must deal with both triumph and adversity. Fortney shows that some handle themselves and their world better than others.
The Cabin works as the vicarious realization of a dream to have an escape “up North.” As we read, we can visualize the vast night sky over a meadow, walk through woods and swamp, canoe a pristine river, drive the simple gravel roads of Oulu Township, be amazed by the vast power of Lake Superior.
Two of the men die relatively young. As the two survivors with their friends and family build the cabin that replaces an original shack, we can understand something of what makes us, in the face of death, want to build something lasting, something of quality that comes from community.
Most significant, however, beyond the portrait of the land, beyond Fortney’s heartfelt portraits of friends, family, and strangers, The Cabin can be read as a meditation on the fragility of life, a profound meditation on death. And that meditation leads to a sense of continuity created by friends, children, grandchildren, and a unique, personal place that provides a center for them all.
Steve Fortney shows you why in The Cabin A North Woods Memoir.
Nature's lure is the starting place. The Brule is not far from the cabin, so fishing and exploring stories are scattered throughout the book. Hunting memories, too. And nature revealed many things to those in its midst witnessing what was going on around them. The theater of the meadow provided much entertainment by day, and by night they reclined to view the clear dark skies.
This book is also about building things. Many hands over many years built the sticks and mortar of Oulou Rulu. And community was building. Four very different owners invested not only in a north woods property, but in each other. The messiness of human interaction played out, in dark days or lighter ones, as they got to know each other very well. Community building additionally included what happened when four Southern Wisconsinites plunked themselves in the midst of the Finns in the North Woods.
Finally, Fortney has layered in philosophical discussions great or small, tragedies, and humor, sometimes dark-tinted.
I'm giving this book four stars because I'd have preferred a more-intimate first person narrator. But it is a book hard to put down.
Arthur Dewey writes on the book’s back cover “With a felicitous mix of whimsy, gin, and poetry, The Cabin is a world to get lost in.” And having read Steven D. Fortney’s "The Cabin, A North Woods Memoir," I heartily agree.
Fortney, an established poet in his own right, gives us more than a yarn about spending time in the North Woods (of Wisconsin)—and his poetic qualities are readily seen in his tersely written prose. This book is a homage to his time spent there, the others who are involved, and their experiences simply relating to Mother Nature and to each other.
Whimsical, yes, and delightfully so. His penchant for recording (and recalling) those experiences (and adventures) makes for peaceful reading, of pondering contentedly. His love of the outdoors is quite evident. Illustrations by Richard Fendrick add greatly to the overall effect.
“Back to nature” and “saving the environment” aren’t what he’s selling(although those themes can’t help but come through), as he seems more involved in celebrating life and time in the North Woods, along with wild berries, wild bears, fresh fish, and fresh air. A delightful read.
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