March 26, 1999

'The Spirit of Place': Students' Lives Become the Stuff of Literature

By CAROLYN J. MOONEY

Remember your one true voice, Cheryl Savageau is telling students in her course on "Poetry, Politics, and Spirit." It's the voice of your childhood.

And if that voice becomes fainter with time, or seems to have disappeared altogether, don't despair, she says: There are ways to tap into it, ways to bring it back. But first you have to capture the spirit of the place where those early memories were created.

The spirit of place has

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