A Way of Happening: Essays on Art, Work, and Travel

Endorsements for Robert StewartFor Outside Language "This is a beautiful and courageous collection of essays. . . Whocannot be grateful for this dedicated, quietly joyful celebrationof being and making." -Kelly Cherry "The pleasure of these essays is in confronting a mind that is subtle, learned, yet informal, a sensibility that can embrace the earthiest as well as themost refined materials, and a craft that is highly evolved. Put yourself in Robert Stewart's hands." -Phillip Lopate For The Narrow Gate "Bob Stewart, one of the last of the great visionary editors, setsforth in these essays his arrow-sharp and deeply lived esthetic,philosophical and moral insights." -Andrei Codrescu "Bob is a fine essayist and poet in his own right, with a commandof imagery that suggest his roots in the real working world. He has, and both his writing and his editing convey it,the old-fashioned virtue of character. -Janet Burroway For poems, Higher "Bob Stewart is a superb poet and essayist. His keen eye and supple imagination are among his mostremarkable gifts." -Conger Beasley Jr. "Robert Stewart's Higher is a treasure: witty, spare, emotionallygenerous . . . How can a book by humble, idiomatic, and lofty at once? Open this literary treasure chest . . . and find out.'-Marilyn Kallet