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"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today
Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212182
"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786751169
“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” —Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811217286
"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post
Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1557289999
New collection of essays.
Author : John Hildebrand
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780873515283
A Northern Front reflects the day-by-day disappearance of wild places and the ever-changing face of the American landscape.
Author : James L. W. West
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0271050675
"A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.
Author : H.D.
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1644230232
H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.
Author : Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253049695
How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon--a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology--a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship.
Author : Thomas Lynch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1324003987
Foreword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.
Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0374718180
A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger’s beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of “desert books”—The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island—A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice. Wasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America’s seemingly desolate terrains.