Автор: Osborn Carolyn Название: Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays ISBN: 1609405447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609405441 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2633.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays explores the life of the author, from her Depression-era childhood in Tennessee to her adolescence in the Hill Country of Texas, from life as a small town cheerleader to life as a world-traveling author, from the child of a hard scrabble farmer to that of a semi-retired rancher. Like the main character in her interconnected and often autobiographical short stories, Osborn is extremely curious about her occasionally eccentric family, yet she must continually accept the mysteries of reality -- a mother locked away for clinical depression, country neighbors who appear to live on nothing, the eternal balance of caring deeply for an unforgiving Texas Hill Country landscape while traveling the world from Europe to the Galapagos. Aware of the need for family mythology, she often mines family history (one of her forebears followed Daniel Boone over the Cumberland Gap and was an early settler in Tennessee, and his flintlock rifle hangs in Osborn's living room) and her own distinctly Southern background that witnesses a fading 19th-century morality, readily accepts individual eccentricity, and celebrates storytelling as a way of understanding the world.
Автор: Huber Sonya Название: Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day ISBN: 0814258042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814258040 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Horton Randall Название: Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays ISBN: 0810144638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810144637 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become a tenured professor. Horton`s essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one`s life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.
Автор: Richard Katrovas Название: Poets and the Fools Who Love Them: A Memoir in Essays ISBN: 080717663X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807176634 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Poets and the Fools Who Love Them blends autobiography with cultural commentary and meditates on creative writing as a cottage industry within humanities higher education. Celebrated poet and memoirist Richard Katrovas examines his picaresque early years with a criminal father, a beleaguered mother, and four siblings as state and federal authorities pursued the family across the highways of America. His freewheeling, wide-ranging essays consider, among other social constructs, the relation of crime and art, and the relation of both to the authority of the state, particularly in terms of race and class. Katrovas speaks candidly about how white privilege facilitated his father's criminal career, as a lifestyle of larceny and used-car scams, perpetuated state to state, would have surely had different implications for a family of color. Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other creative writers, and reflects upon the ways in which that search has affected his role as the father to three Czech American daughters. The book flows from the love of a poet for other poets, for the "community of poets," one likened to a "gang of priests" and a "herd of bears." Katrovas maintains that most lovers of poets are themselves poets, and those lovers of poets who are not themselves poets are saints.At its heart, Poets and the Fools Who Love Them contemplates, with care and unabashed honesty, the role of art and the artist in the madcap twenty-first century.
Автор: Mary Helen Stefaniak Название: The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life ISBN: 1609388518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609388515 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3604.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Culled from two decades` worth of Mary Helen Stefaniak`s `Alive and Well` column in the Iowa Source, each essay in this collection invites readers into the life of a woman `with a family and friends and a job . . . and a history living in one old house after another at the turn of the twenty-first century in the middle of the Middle West.`
Описание: Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences?In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on ‘the great dismissal,’ in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.
Автор: Maureen Dunphy Название: Divining, a Memoir in Trees ISBN: 0814348424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814348420 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3188.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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In sixteen essays, each named after a species of tree, Maureen Dunphy explores the nature of human-arboreal relationships, and how each of these trees has—literally—served as a friend, a confidante, or a place to rest. The depth and diversity of these relationships are revealed through essays that are both intimate and universal, moving and informative. While Dunphy's relationships with trees are unique and personal, her work reveals the deep-rooted complexity that connects all of humanity to our staunch, upright companions in life, the members of the "Standing Nation." Beyond providing oxygen, food, and shelter, trees can be sites of emotional refuge, sources of intellectual enrichment, and a boon to physical, mental, and spiritual health.
With essays, such as "Stairway to Heaven: The American Sycamore" and "Rocky Mountain High: The Colorado Pinyon," Dunphy gives readers many ways to reimagine our relationships with nature and self. Within reflections of her personal experience, she skillfully integrates scientific facts to achieve a balance of passion and practicality. While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.
Автор: Hoffman Julian Название: The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World ISBN: 0820347574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820347578 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2633.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it’s a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a quail taking cover on an empty steppe, or a Turkmen family emigrating from Afghanistan to Istanbul.Guided by Rainer Maria Rilke’s belief that “everything beckons us to perceive it,” Hoffman explores the area around the Prespa Lakes, shared by Greece, Albania, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. From there he travels widely, believing that through awareness, curiosity, and openness we have the potential to forge abiding relationships with a range of places. The Small Heart of Things is a book about looking and listening. It incorporates travel and natural history writing, interweaving human stories with those of wild creatures as Hoffman illuminates how, when we accord places our close and patient attention, these many connections can teach us to be at home in the world.
Описание: First-time travelers to Florida often imagine the state as just a vacationland or a swamp—a place to visit and to leave behind. But the writers in this collection discover the truth that everyone who’s lived in the state knows. When you venture into Florida you won’t find what you expect, and what you do find will stay with you forever. The authors of these essays come to Florida for different reasons. Love, fortune, family, rest, natural beauty, or a fresh start. They encounter a place so diverse that it defies easy categorization. Lauren Groff describes her experience settling in Florida after growing up in the Northeast and finds an affinity with the strong-willed writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who grew to resent the cities of her past and embraced the wild lands that inspired The Yearling. Cuban-born Susannah Rodr?guez Drissi travels to Miami and learns what the city does and doesn’t mean for Cuban Americans. Deesha Philyaw comes to the state to care for her mother, who is dying of cancer. Rick Bragg seeks out the beauty of the Gulf of Mexico and writes about how it was threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In these stories, Florida is more than a setting—it’s a character of its own. It stirs up hurricanes and rainstorms, enchants with natural springs and cypress forests, and endures in the face of pollution. For all of these writers, Florida is a force that brings about moments of personal insight and growth, a place where hard lessons are learned and true joy is experienced. Their essays illustrate that the places we inhabit put a stamp on us, even if we only call them home for a season.
Автор: Doucette Catherine Название: On the Run: Finding the Trail Home ISBN: 0870713000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780870713002 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3742.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a collection of personal essays that portray the life of Catherine Doucette, a backcountry skier, horseback rider, and mountainee - roles that have resulted in adventures where she is often the only woman in a group of men.
Автор: Anjanette Delgado Название: Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness ISBN: 1683402502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683402503 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira D?az, Patricia Engel, Jennine Cap? Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ort?z Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the United States. The writers in this volume—first- , second- , and third-generation immigrants to Florida from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Per?, Argentina, Chile, and other countries—reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state.Editor Anjanette Delgado characterizes the work in this collection as literature of uprootedness, literatura del desarraigo, a Spanish literary tradition and a term used by Reinaldo Arenas. With the heart-changing, here-and-there perspective of attempting life in environments not their own, these writers portray many different responses to displacement, each occupying their own unique place on what Delgado calls a spectrum of belonging.Together, these writers explore what exactly makes Florida home for those struggling between memory and presence. In these works, as it is for many people seeking to make a new life in the United States, Florida is the place where the uprooted stop to catch their breath long enough to wonder, “What if I stayed? What if here could one day be my home?”
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