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Contents
WALKER
IN THE FOG
On Mennonite Writing
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Foreword 10
Series Preface 12
Series Editor’s Foreword 13
Author’s Preface 15
Introduction 17
1 Myths of Origin and
Arrival • 25
2 Humility in Mennonite Literature • 44
3 Voice and History in Patrick Friesen • 62
4 Almost One of the Boys: Marginality, Community and
Nonviolence in William Stafford • 74
5 Beyond Dr. Johnson’s Dog:
American Mennonite Poetry and Poets: • 97
6 In Praise of the Lurkers (Who Come Out to Speak) •
133
7 At the Vision Conference • 142
8 Black Coats, Pig-Headed Fathers, and Growing Souls:
Some Reflections on the Figure of Harold Bender •
148
9 (In)visible Cities, (F)acts of Power, (Hmm)ility,
Fathers and (M)Others: Anabaptism, Postmodernity, and
Mennonite Writing • 155
10 Story, Mastery, Gelassenheit, Imagination, Eros:
Where Do I Surrender? • 171
11 Enigmas of Embodiment in Four Books of Poems •
204
12 If the Earth Is the Lord’s, Do We Have to Hate
the World? • 225
13 “What Is It I Know?”: Notes Toward an
Embodied Gnosis • 241
14 Afterword: Heresy and the Individual Talent • 261
Notes 269
Works Cited 275
The Index 285
Acknowledgments and Permissions 291
The Author 295
Walker in the Fog orders:
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