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Book Synopsis Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic by : Eva Heisler
Download or read book Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic written by Eva Heisler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of prose poems set in Iceland paired with a group of lyric experiments that stage the problem of the lyric “I,” this compilation evokes a time in which the romance and astonishments of a foreign land are challenged by the difficulties of earning a living as a foreigner. The narrator struggles with just how deeply language shapes perception and, as she tries to learn Icelandic, the blind spots proliferate. Preoccupied with the experience of voice, this work addresses the subject as it surfaces in failures of translation, exceeds signification, and floats or settles as accent and tic.
Book Synopsis Icelandic Art Today by : Christian Schoen
Download or read book Icelandic Art Today written by Christian Schoen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icelandic culture is so strongly oriented towards language that the visual arts didn't truly begin to develop until the early twentieth century - which is remarkable for a Western country. This unique situation may explain the nature of the contemporary art scene in Iceland. Even though Conceptual art remains a considerable international influence, and globalization is most certainly affecting this isolated island in the North Atlantic, Icelandic art continues to develop at its own speed, marked by a playful creative energy and the pleasure of experimentation. Icelandic Art Today introduces 50 of the country's most important artists - including Finnbogi Petursson, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Helgi Thorgils Fridjonsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Margret H. Blondal, Olafur Olafsson + Libia Castro, Ragnar Kjartansson and Ruri and Steingrimur Eyfjord - who have contributed to the contemporary landscape of Icelandic art from the 1970s through the present. Essays by historian and curator Christian Schoen, critic Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Director of the Reykjavik Art Museum Hafthor Yngvason trace the development of Iceland's avant-garde over the past 40 years.
Book Synopsis The Importance of Being Iceland by : Eileen Myles
Download or read book The Importance of Being Iceland written by Eileen Myles and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myles's account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau's Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan's Sonnets, and flossing.
Download or read book Island Zombie written by Roni Horn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roni Horn (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary artist known for her sculptures, photography, and installations inspired by landscape and the natural world, and especially the isolated landscapes of Iceland, where she has travelled and lived for substantial periods of time since the early 1970s. Horn's work explores geology and climate; the interplay of nature, art, and place; and the relationships between words, appearance, androgyny, and the self. Horn is author of more than twenty books and artist's books, and is herself the subject of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogs, including a survey published by Phaidon and many by Steidl. Examples of her work include You Are the Weather (1994-96), a series of photographs of a young woman bathing in Icelandic hot springs; Pair Objects (1988), identical metal sculptures placed in two different locations; and the installation Library of Water (2007) in Iceland, with columns that enclose water from melting glaciers. Horn is arguably the most important visual chronicler of the landscape of Iceland. Upon graduating from her MFA program at Yale, she traveled to Iceland, journeying across its interior on a motorcycle. Over thirty years, she has continually returned to Iceland to explore and record the astonishing beauty of its geology, climate, and culture. This book will contain a range of texts, from evocative vignettes to illustrated essays written for Iceland's most widely-read newspaper. A combination of artists' writings and travelogue, the texts reveal Iceland as one of Horne's most important influences and inspirations, and record a unique and beautiful environment undergoing climate change"--
Download or read book Drawing Water written by Eva Heisler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. 'When white is well managed, it ought to be strange, ' writes Eva Heisler in her brilliant new hybrid collection DRAWING WATER. Here narrative falls away, replaced by repetition, which creates both music and color. DRAWING WATER is a meditation on the significance of the line in both poetry and visual art. 'The right hand margin / is profile-- / is oar-- / is brink.' Each page functions as a poem or image that challenges convention: 'What I learned from Matisse's black-- / to creep downstairs in the middle of the night and exchange blue silk for black wool.' Writing as both poet and art critic, Heisler captures the tension between innovation and history that informs 'two experiences of time: the random glitter of / unmeasured minutes; the geometry of schedules.'--Carol Guess Not since Marguerite Duras's Writing or Maggie Nelson's BLUETS have I been so excited by a new book, but Eva Heisler's DRAWING WATER has done it, has entered my 'heart line / fate line / life line.' It is a book for the back pocket, for a train ride or a rainy weekend, the kind of book that complements staring out a window at the changing landscape--shifting scenes sliding by, tiny beads of rain refracting light. Make no mistake: when Eva Heisler breaks a line she breaks a heart, just 'as the sea / breaks at our back door.' And throughout, her touch is as delicate as if she has been 'drawing the wing on a fly, ' and the result is as mighty and 'broad as the breast of a hero.'--Molly Gaudry
Download or read book Foundation written by Hafpor Yngvason and published by Buster Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her work, Katrin Sigurdardottir examines distance and memory and their embodiments in architecture, urbanism cartography and traditional landscape representations. Sometimes there is a mnemonic aspect to the work, i.e. making the work is a process of spatial recall. The places created are frequently based on real places, points of departure, arrival or passage, places as minute at their spatial and temporal distance as the models she make of them. This book examines her creations.
Book Synopsis Letters from Iceland by : W. H. Auden
Download or read book Letters from Iceland written by W. H. Auden and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Auden and MacNeice travelled in Iceland together in 1936, the verse, prose, letters and notes they recorded would appear the following year as 'Letters from Iceland'.
Download or read book Silent Anatomies written by Monica Ong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. 2014 Kore Press First Book Winner, selected by Joy Harjo. SILENT ANATOMIES is a poetic-visual hybrid that traverses the body's terrain, examining the phenomena of cultural silences. Whether it is shame obscuring the female body, the social stigma shrouding certain illnesses, or the cryptic stories of her ancestors, Monica Ong interrogates the agency of the daughter, who must decide whether or not to speak out. What happens to stories that go underreported, un-translated, or are completely erased?
Book Synopsis Guest the One-Eyed by : Gunnar Gunnarsson
Download or read book Guest the One-Eyed written by Gunnar Gunnarsson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the Icelandic landscapes and tales with "Guest the One-Eyed" by Gunnar Gunnarsson. This captivating fiction, translated by W. J. Alexander Worster, weaves a tale of resilience, identity, and the human spirit. Set against the backdrop of Iceland's rugged terrains, Gunnarsson's narrative offers a deep dive into German literature and the cultural intricacies of Iceland.
Download or read book Reading Notes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading notes constitute a vast resource for an understanding of literary history and culture. They indicate what writers read as well as how they read and what they used in their own work. As such, they play an important role in both the reception and the production of texts. The essays in this volume, representing the newest trends in European and international textual scholarship, examine literary creation and the relationship between reading and writing. To study how readers respond to writing and how reading engenders new writing, the contributing scholars no longer take for granted that authors write in splendid isolation, but turn to a more broadly sociological investigation of authorship, assigning new roles to the writer as reader, notetaker, annotator, book collector and so on. Notes and annotations may be fragmentary, private, undigested and embryonic, but as witnesses to the reading process, they tell unique stories about writers and readers, ranging from great marginalists like Coleridge to women annotators of cookbooks. This subject of research is a junction of several fields of research and tries to bridge gaps between separate disciplines with a common ground, such as the history of the book, the history of reading, and the history of writing, scholarly editing, and textual genetics (the analysis, commentary and critical interpretation of the way in which works of art come into being), bridging the gap between literary and textual criticism.
Download or read book Crazy Horse written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ash Burner written by Kári Gíslason and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ash Burner, a sensitive, poignant novel about growing up, running away, and the many guises of love, 12-year-old Ted lives with his father, the local magistrate, in the small coastal town of Lion's Head. All Ted knows about his mother is that she died when he was a boy, and that his father—despite moving halfway across the world to start anew—still grieves for her privately. When he is hospitalized after a swimming accident, Ted meets Anthony and Claire, and is immediately captivated by the older pair. Intelligent and perspicacious, they introduce him to poetry and art, and he feels a sense of belonging at last. But as the trio's friendship intensifies over the years, Ted must learn to negotiate the boundaries of love and come to terms with a legacy of secrets and silence.
Download or read book The Brothers written by Asko Sahlberg and published by Peirene Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shakespearean drama from icy Finland. Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master? Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in this dark and gripping saga. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'This is a historical novel in miniature form. It deals in dark passions and delivers as many twists as a 500-page epic. And if that were not enough, each character speaks in a distinct voice and expresses a unique take on reality. I'm thrilled to be publishing a book that is as Finnish as a forest in winter - but that resembles a work from the American South: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.' Meike Ziervogel 'A brooding family drama that has something of the timeless quality of good soap opera.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'Intensely visual . . . A brooding, atmospheric, Scandinavian late night movie.' Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday 'A heart-stoppingly intense historical novel of grand scope.' White Review 'This short, intense novel examines concepts of home, inheritance and the connection between personal and international conflict.' Max Liu, Times Literary Supplement LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2014
Download or read book Ghost of written by Diana Khoi Nguyen and published by Omnidawn Open. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize
Download or read book The Book of Settlements written by and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
Download or read book Jewed 'i-hoi written by Ofelia Zepeda and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This handmade-style book and compact disc recording from Tucson's Kore Press presents a bilingual collection in O'odham -- the Native American language used among the approximately 18- to 20,000 O'odham tribal members of southern Arizona -- and English. All the poems originated in the O'odham language. The contemporary writing system here was developed relatively recently; attributed to Albert Alvarez and Kenneth Hale, it's endorsed by the O'odham Nation.
Download or read book River Legs written by Jen McClanaghan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jen McClanaghan's poems roam across the most intimate of terrains: love, loss, and memory. They pause over the poet's personal tragedies before turning back to the world's larger calamities, never for long letting the one escape the shadow of the other. River Legs is nostalgic for the prelapsarian world of two-parent households, of dogs half-asleep on the front lawn, of youth and first love. But its wistfulness is tainted by the knowledge that the world is not only fallen but even now falling. Fathers die, mothers drink themselves sick, relationships fray. Meanwhile, these poems turn to the careful order of language, not to keep the world at bay but to finally allow it in.
