TRAVELS IN AN AMERICAN IMAGINATION

Lee Foster39s book Travels in an American Imagination The Spiritual Geography of Our Time is based on a provocative premise The premise is that we live in both the most wondrous and the most horrific time ever to be alive The task of an informed Everyman and Everywoman in our time is to reconcile those polar opposites in our sensibilities and lead constructive lives Lee presents 25 essays in the book that use places in his worldwide journeys as jumping off points for the discussion At Canaveral in Florida he celebrates the fact that we have ventured into space and put a man on the moon In the decimated Atlantic rainforests outside of Rio he experiences that this rainforest has been 90 destroyed with irreversible loss of species The resolution of these polar opposites is not easy but Lee Foster believes there is a way to deal with it As he writes in the introduction If I look squarely at life with unflinching clarity yet with sufficient imagination striking a balanced perspective perhaps only then can I continue living in a healthy constructive manner and not be overwhelmed by pessimism and despair