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Augury Winner
of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction "I love Philip Garrison's essays for what they don't know. His is an essential American voice intent on exploring a geographical -- and mental -- landscape of blurred borders and vague boundaries. Like William James, Garrison believes that 'life is in the transitions,' and at the heart of Augury is a deep intellectual respect for the interrupted moment, the quirky experience, the mysterious friendship, the observations that don't add up. These are essays in the best tradition of American reflection."
"We swim in an ocean of stories, Philip Garrison reminds us. There is no other place to swim. Skeptical of easy narratives, he fashions hard ones. Never sure whether meaning can be found, he patiently hunts for it among Aztec tombs, in old newspapers, in superstitions and butterflies, in the face of his father laid out in a coffin, in the back seat of a Mexican highway patrol car, in the tales of Coyote and the search for peyote. Such a list only begins to suggest the breadth of Garrison's curiosity. Augury is proof that the peasures of reading the essay derive from and deeptn the pleasures of reading the world."
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