![]() ![]() Though only one of the five stories here, ``Making It Home''-a war veteran slowly walks his way out of horror toward his known identity, his own Kentucky landscape-describes it expressly, a cradling arc is the shape most fundamental to didactic art from Dante onward in other stories as well, all set in the community of Port William (Remembering, 1988, etc.), often there is a rescue (such as that, in the title piece, of an old man from a degrading death-in-hospital) or an unnoticed support (``A Jonquil for Mary Penn'')-a floor beneath which one cannot drop. ![]() ![]() Berry has employed all the forms he works in-poetry, the essay, fiction short and long-toward an examination of what it means to be placed: what here and elsewhere he calls ``membership'' American individualism-turned-loneliness seems like the nightmare that puts his eloquence to greatest use. ![]()
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