Books by Jim W. Corder

Nostalgia, wonderment, and a healthy and imaginative provincialism colour the pages of this book. The vibrantly concrete details of daily existence in a bygone time in a remote and desolate area of Texas are startlingly juxtaposed with philosophical musings about the limitations all of us face in comprehending even that little bit of life we live.

A thoughtful meditation on the connectedness of history and the possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, this book reveals as much about Corder's literary and historiographical preoccupations as it does about the life of his subject: a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant casualty of the American war with Mexico in 1846.

Yonder is about Corder's struggle for a footing against nostalgia's pull. In a kind of nonlinear, semi random sorting process reflected in the book's structure, Corder turns inward to refocus hazy memories and estimate and shoulder his responsibilities for the turns his life has taken.