TY - BOOK ID - 77890262 TI - Writing home PY - 2012 SN - 1280881720 9786613723031 0809330865 9780809330867 9781280881725 6613723037 9780809330850 0809330857 PB - Carbondale Edwardsville Southern Illinois University Press DB - UniCat KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy KW - College teachers KW - Education KW - Literacy KW - Biographical methods in education KW - Biography in education KW - Biography KW - Biographical methods. KW - Social aspects KW - Goldblatt, Eli. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890262 AB - In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life-in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces Goldblatt's search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits. Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political develop ER -