Neither are the stumbling, but well-intentioned efforts of the leaders of the church. Things begin to improve for Hans only when Tamique Higgins returns to Sandy Ford for an extended stay with her parents. She is on a leave of absence to figure out her own way forward from corporate burnout. Hans and Tamique reconnect over memories of Jennifer and find that their mutual support begins to breathe life into their dry bones. Their growing relationship also generates tension with the leaders of the church. Their support for Peterson erodes as they observe a relationship they perceive as unseemly for their pastor.
Can Hans find a way to emerge from his own dark night and still be true to his calling?
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about By Paths Untrodden , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Apr 04, Jeff Crosby rated it really liked it. Honig's debut novel "By Paths Untrodden" is a story of loss, betrayal, love rekindled, hope, racism and redemption set in a small town on the western plains of Nebraska.
Like "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson or "Eventide" and "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf, it masterfully deals with universal themes while being decidedly placed in a very particular landscape - both geographical and spiritual. The novel takes a number of twists and turns that are at once unexpected and entirely believable.
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The author chooses to not tie up all of the strands of the novel in a beautiful bow at the work's end, which makes the book all the more treasured by readers tired of such unbelievable resolution. A highly-recommended work, and a significant achievement for a first novel. May 19, Pam rated it it was amazing. The mark of a good story: I was reading quickly, only to underline a favorite line here or there.
As I was nearing the end of the book, I started to read slower because I didn't want the story to end. Proud Music of the Storm. To Think of Time. Darest Thou Now O Soul. Whispers of Heavenly Death. Chanting the Square Deific. Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. As If a Phantom Caress'd Me. That Music Always Round Me.
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What Ship Puzzled at Sea. A Noiseless Patient Spider. O Living Always, Always Dying. To One Shortly to Die. Night on the Prairies. As I Watch the Ploughman. Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood. Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling. To a Locomotive in Winter. Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats. Weave in, My Hardy Life.
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By Broad Potomac's Shore. From Far Dakota's Canyons. What Best I See in Thee. Spirit That Form'd This Scene. As the Time Draws Nigh. Years of the Modern. As at Thy Portals Also Death.
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Pensive on Her Dead Gazing. The Sobbing of the Bells. As They Draw to a Close. Now Finale to the Shore. To Those Who've Fail'd. A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine. A Font of Type. As I Sit Writing Here. Queries to My Seventieth Year. After the Dazzle of Day. Out of May's Shows Selected. Election Day, November, Death of General Grant.
Red Jacket From Aloft. Of That Blithe Throat of Thine. To Get the Final Lilt of Songs. Small the Theme of My Chant. The Calming Thought of All. Thanks in Old Age.
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The Voice of the Rain. While Not the Past Forgetting. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida. You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me.
Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone. As the Greek's Signal Flame. Now Precedent Songs, Farewell. Old Age's Lambent Peaks. After the Supper and Talk. Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! He continued to teach until , when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He founded a weekly newspaper, Long-Islander , and later edited a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. It was in New Orleans that he experienced firsthand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets of that city.
On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of , he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman , and continued to develop the unique style of poetry that later so astonished Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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In , Whitman took out a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass , which consisted of twelve untitled poems and a preface. He published the volume himself, and sent a copy to Emerson in July of Whitman released a second edition of the book in , containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response. During his lifetime, Whitman continued to refine the volume, publishing several more editions of the book.
Noted Whitman scholar, M. Jimmie Killingsworth writes that "the 'merge,' as Whitman conceived it, is the tendency of the individual self to overcome moral, psychological, and political boundaries. Thematically and poetically, the notion dominates the three major poems of At the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman vowed to live a "purged" and "cleansed" life. He worked as a freelance journalist and visited the wounded at New York City—area hospitals. He then traveled to Washington, D. Overcome by the suffering of the many wounded in Washington, Whitman decided to stay and work in the hospitals and stayed in the city for eleven years.