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reviewed A lucky American childhood on July 09, 2009
A lucky American childhood
A memoir by Paul Engle, who directed the Iowa Writers Workshop for decades and also founded the Iowa International Writers Workshop. This book tells of his childhood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, back in the days when some people thought cars were a passing fad. The book is full of imagery and descriptions of things of all the senses; vivid memories of what that Engle missed as the world modernized and became more "antiseptic". But his use of imagery is indicative of his status as a poet; prose is not his "native language", and since there was not really a plot or story line (except a few anecdotes in some chapters), I found the reading a bit laborious. But it did make Cedar Rapids, as he described the rich diversity that constituted it, more than just "that blue collar city to the north", which seems to be the Iowa City opinion.
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