Four Questions on Farsickness: Jill Talbot
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be Elsewhere, anywhere other than where I was, and not because there was anything wrong with Here.”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be Elsewhere, anywhere other than where I was, and not because there was anything wrong with Here.”
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Read More“Although my travel throughout Europe had been extensive, I was over 50 when I visited Borobudur on Java. On the plane coming home, words starting coming in a rush, so fast I was hardly able to keep up.”
Read More“In each place I have been immersed in new circles of friends, new families, and new ways of thinking. I’ve been forced to introspect, not always willingly, and have had to figure out how to belong all over again. My work reflects the resultant struggles and epiphanies.”
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The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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