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Poverty Creek Journal

Author : Thomas Gardner
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482870
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Poverty Creek Journal written by Thomas Gardner and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The achievement of ‘Poverty Creek Journal’ is precisely that it does retrace that kind of wandering—and, in so doing, makes something lovely and meaningful of a difficult year. Gardner does not go in for pat analogies; he does not claim, as Camus once did about soccer, that running taught him everything about death. Nor does he go in for pat consolation. His journal does not so much end as stop, as if he has simply not yet risen for the next morning’s run.” — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker “This is one of the most beautifully rendered pieces about running I’ve encountered under fifty pages. On the surface, Poverty Creek Journal is a daily running log in lyric prose, but it soon offers a meditation on the articulable nature of the human experience. After the narrator suddenly loses his brother, we follow his thoughts through nature, his mind wandering to integrate the strength and frailty of the body as he runs. Gardner’s luminous insights on running are often breathtaking. He likens running to ‘half sleep, when you’re awake in a way, but aware of dreams passing in a kind of un-retraceable wandering….the turning colors passing through me… no real way to put any of this into numbers, mile after mile streaming through me.’ We escape with Gardner away, from the finitude of miles and the illusion of stasis through his will to observe and gradually integrate loss into his body.” — Jaclyn Gilbert, LitHub “[E]ach year I turned my attention again to Poverty Creek Journal, listening closely to Gardner’s prose to understand better what I was striving for in my own work. Only recently did I start to realize that what he’d achieved in his writing didn’t mean I was an inadequate writer, but rather that I’d found a partner of sorts, someone whose work I could converse with through my own work.” —Joe Demes, Meter Magazine Thomas Gardner lives and teaches in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the edge of the Jefferson National Forest.

POVERTY CREEK JOURNAL

Author : THOMAS. GARDNER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914198809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book POVERTY CREEK JOURNAL written by THOMAS. GARDNER and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sundays

Author : Thomas Gardner
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946482358
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Sundays written by Thomas Gardner and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Continuing the work begun in 2014's POVERTY CREEK JOURNAL, the lyric essays in Thomas Gardner's SUNDAYS focus on moments in our ordinary lives when something within us breaks and we are cast out to wander and sing, "feeling [our] way toward something [in the invisible] that will press back." "Deep within us is a river, under it all, where everything comes undone," Gardner writes, and over a year's-worth of Sundays, in an improvisatory prose that "holds its breath at its [own] undoing," he takes us there, urging us each to find that same space opening within. Twenty turkeys in the backyard, a walk with friends from overseas to a plunging waterfall, moments in the dark when flashes across the eye become a boat in rising wind tugging against its mooring--these lyric pieces, much like the sentences from Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping Gardner discovers one morning pasted on the doors and windows and staircases of the building he works in, offer us pieces of the ordinary set apart, "tiny squares of print, unfixed from narrative," so carefully tied together under the surface that the everyday world, like Gardner's building, seems everywhere "ringed and veined with thought."

This One Wild Life

Author : Angie Abdou
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773057146
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book This One Wild Life written by Angie Abdou and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage. Includes research on the shy child, parent-child bonding, social media issues, and the benefits of outdoor activity and nature immersion. Disillusioned with overly competitive organized sports and concerned about her lively daughter’s growing shyness, author Angie Abdou sets herself a challenge: to hike a peak a week over the summer holidays with Katie. They will bond in nature and discover the glories of outdoor activity. What could go wrong? Well, among other things, it turns out that Angie loves hiking but Katie doesn’t. Hilarious, poignant, and deeply felt, This One Wild Life explores parenting and marriage in a summer of unexpected outcomes and growth for both mother and daughter.

American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990

Author : D. Quentin Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108246516
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 written by D. Quentin Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has not been kind to the 1980s. The decade is often associated with absurd fashion choices, neo-Conservatism in the Reagan/Bush years, the AIDS crisis, Wall Street ethics, and uninspired television, film, and music. Yet the literature of the 1980s is undeniably rich and lasting. American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 seeks to frame some of the decade's greatest achievements such as Toni Morrison's monumental novel Beloved and to consider some of the trends that began in the 1980s and developed thereafter, including the origins of the graphic novel, prison literature, and the opening of multiculturalism vis-à-vis the 'canon wars'. This volume argues not only for the importance of 1980s American literature, but also for its centrality in understanding trends and trajectories in all contemporary literature against the broader background of culture. This volume serves as both an introduction and a deep consideration of the literary culture of our most maligned decade.

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610698320
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] written by Jeffrey Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

Less Than What You Once Were

Author : Aaron Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781956692112
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Less Than What You Once Were written by Aaron Brown and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker-during the 2008 "Battle of N'Djamena" in Chad's capital. This destabilizing experience-in which the speaker's home is broken into-results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at N'Djamena's airport as an eight-year-old boy to the failed attempt at bird hunting with a slingshot. These centering memories soon give way to stories of displacement as a young adult and, much later, a return to the country of his youth. This fragmented memoir, told in a similar, episodic style to Claudia Rankine's Citizen, is both a coming-of-age story and also a story of exile, ending in a state of dislocated adulthood, the speaker longing for a return to a childhood home that can't be accessed.

Sport and Christianity

Author : Matt Hoven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056767861X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Sport and Christianity written by Matt Hoven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are passionate about sport, yet few give thought to its role and importance in their lives - let alone its relationship to Christian faith. This book examines the potential of sports and challenges readers to consider how it relates to their deepest passions, behaviours, and actions, while providing newcomers to the field with a framework to help consider the connection between sports participation and faith-based values. Featuring academic writers from a range of disciplinary fields, including philosophy, theology, sports studies and education, Sport and Christianity: Practices for the Twenty-First Century sheds insight into the meaning of sports for Christians as participants and as practitioners. Divided into practises for the mind, for the heart, and for moral life, the numerous topics include the value of play in sports, sports as a means for dialogue between faith traditions, sports as a place to cultivate virtue and the Christian spiritual life, and prayer and religious experiences in sports The result is a text that promotes new ways of thinking about the sports-Christianity relationship while at the same time developing a deeper understanding of the place of sports in our everyday lives.

The Mining Journal, Railway and Commercial Gazette

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mining Journal, Railway and Commercial Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running

Author : Lindsey A. Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024283
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Running written by Lindsey A. Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Running, former NCAA Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedom—to move and be moved. Through tender storytelling of a lifetime wearing running shoes, Freeman considers injury and recovery, what it means to run as a visibly queer person, and how the release found in running comes from a desire to touch something that cannot be accessed when still. Running invites us to run through life, legging it out the best we can with heart and style.

Wittgenstein's Artillery

Author : James C. Klagge
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262365537
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Artillery written by James C. Klagge and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry." In Wittgenstein's Artillery, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach his audience, Wittgenstein tried a more poetic style of doing philosophy. Klagge argues that, deploying this new philosophical "artillery"--Klagge's term for Wittgenstein's methods of influencing his readers and students--Wittgenstein moved from an esoteric mode to an evangelical mode, aiming for an effect on his audience that was noncognitive, appealing to the temperament in addition to the intellect. Wittgenstein was an artillery spotter--directing artillery fire to targets--in the Austrian army during World War I, and Klagge argues that, years later, he became a philosophical spotter, struggling to find the right artillery to accomplish his philosophical purpose. Klagge shows how Wittgenstein's work with his students influenced his style of writing philosophy and motivated him to care about the effect of his ideas on his audience. To illustrate Wittgenstein's evolving approach, Klagge draws on not only Wittgenstein's best-known works but also such lesser-known material as notebooks, dictations, lectures, and recollections of students. Klagge then goes beyond Wittgenstein to present a range of literature--biblical parables and children's stories, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche--as other examples of the poetic approach. He concludes by offering his own attempts at a poetic approach to addressing philosophical issues.

The Nail in the Tree

Author : Carol Ann Davis
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482862
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Nail in the Tree written by Carol Ann Davis and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nail in the Tree narrates Carol Ann Davis’ experience of raising two sons in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, on the day of and during the aftermath of the shooting there. Part memoir, part art-historical treatise, these meditations lead her to explore crucial subjects, including whether childhood can itself be both violent and generative, the possibility of the integration of trauma into daily life and artistic practice, and the role of the artist. Carol Ann Davis is a poet, essayist, and author of the poetry collections Psalm (2007) and Atlas Hour (2011), both from Tupelo Press. The daughter of one of the NASA engineers who returned the Apollo 13 crew from the moon, she grew up on the east coast of Florida the youngest of seven children, then studied poetry at Vassar College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A former longtime editor of the literary journal Crazyhorse, she is Professor of English at Fairfield University, where she is founding director of Poetry in Communities, an initiative that brings writing workshops to communities hit by sudden or systemic violence. She lives in Newtown, CT, with her husband and two sons.

Running, Thinking, Writing

Author : Jackie Hoermann-Elliott
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1643172530
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Running, Thinking, Writing written by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the creative fulfillment of writers who identify as runners, walkers, or movers, Running, Thinking, Writing: Embodied Cognition in Composition unveils the varied understandings of the relationship between writing activity and physical activity. Jackie Hoermann-Elliott provides an interdisciplinary overview of relevant research from the fields of composition studies, cognitive science, neuroscience, and sports psychology before proposing a new theoretical framework for explaining what happens to writers when they are moved to develop their writing while their bodies are in motion. She shares illuminating accounts from runner-writers working in the industries of journalism, academia, and youth literature. She also provides pedagogical insights from working with student writers on embodied writing assignments as well as introductory activities for instructors to try in their own classrooms. With a running metaphor guiding the chapters in this book, readers will be challenged to view writing as embodied cognition and to realize the benefits of embodiment for all writers.

American Journal of Science

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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The American Journal of Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Journal of Science

Author : Mrs. Gambold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Science written by Mrs. Gambold and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Journal of Science and Arts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: