Manure Dreams and Other Essays

Whether it’s meeting an intimate stranger while fly fishing on a Northwoods pond, playing pickup baseball on a field where Black Angus cattle graze, or rubbing shoulders with the country’s most prestigious poets at The White House, these essays will make you smile with recognition, laugh with delight, or gasp with wonder. Describing his many mottled teaching and writing incidents, Holinger entertains by using self-deprecating humor to great effect. Other pieces, inspired by writers alluded to—Walt Whitman, Wendell Berry—describe in rhythmical prose and metaphorical language our nation’s prairies, mountains, woods, and rivers.