wyszukanych pozycji: 3
Horizon's Lens: My Time on the Turning World
ISBN: 9780803240780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a lyrical memoir and meditation on the nature of time and place, Elizabeth Dodd explores a variety of landscapes, reading the records left by inhabitants and by time itself. In spring in the Yucatan peninsula, she marks the equinox among the ruins of the Maya. In summer in the Orkney Islands, she considers linguistic and historic connections with Icelandic sagas. In tallgrass country in the fall, she observes bison and black-footed ferrets returning to their ancestral landscape. In winter in the canyons of the Ancestral Puebloans, she notes the standstill positions of the sun and the...
In a lyrical memoir and meditation on the nature of time and place, Elizabeth Dodd explores a variety of landscapes, reading the records left by inhab...
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83,42 zł |
In the Mind's Eye: Essays Across the Animate World
ISBN: 9780803215665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this collection of exquisite essays, Elizabeth Dodd explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the Mind s Eye considers the artistic and creative impulses of those who preceded us, making sense of the different ways in which they and we express our experiences of landscape in words and images.Hiking to find ancient petroglyphs in the American Southwest, canoeing black-water rivers to reach ancient trees in the coastal Southeast, and considering artists as...
In this collection of exquisite essays, Elizabeth Dodd explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of souther...
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109,50 zł |
Like Memory, Caverns
ISBN: 9780814718544 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Like Memory, Caverns is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. In fact, the self keeps disappearing, as the world as it is seen seems to replace the seer. This poetry explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary--if difficult--existence of the free spirit. Elizabeth Dodd writes a remarkably musical free verse, with her eye kept focused on the tangible significant detail of... Like Memory, Caverns is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative po... |
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386,05 zł |