Journey to Mount Tamalpais

Journey to Mount Tamalpais PDF Author: Etel Adnan
Publisher: Post Apollo Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Literary Nonfiction. JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS is an essay on Nature, Art, and the relationship between them. Highly original in both content and literary structure, it provides a new outlook on the importance of Nature as an element of thinking; one of the major works on the "spirit of place" in contemporary literature. This book is illustrated with 17 drawings by the author. "An enlightening journey for those who love the mountain, and for those who love Etel Adnan." Wendell Berry"

Journey to Mount Tamalpais

Journey to Mount Tamalpais PDF Author: Etel Adnan
Publisher: Post Apollo Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS is an essay on Nature, Art, and the relationship between them. Highly original in both content and literary structure, it provides a new outlook on the importance of Nature as an element of thinking; one of the major works on the "spirit of place" in contemporary literature. This book is illustrated with 17 drawings by the author. "An enlightening journey for those who love the mountain, and for those who love Etel Adnan." Wendell Berry"

Opening the Mountain

Opening the Mountain PDF Author: Matthew Davis
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
ISBN: 9781593761271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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In 1965, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen gathered at the base of Mt. Tamalpais, a lovely small mountain in Marin County that anchors the San Francisco Bay on its northwest side. Inspired by Tibetan and Indian practices of walking clockwise — “the way of the sun” — around a venerated object, they “opened the mountain” by completing the first circumambulation. They did it again two years later, a month after the “Human Be-in” in Golden Gate Park, and with greater company as they invited the public to join them. The practice has continued almost uninterrupted for forty years, with Matthew Davis finding an organizing role on April 8, 1971, the Buddha's birthday, when he first led the walk. He has led the celebrations more than 140 times since. The ritual walk — slightly less than 15 miles in length — marks the four quarters of the year. Ten way stations have been established for ceremonial chanting and prayer. With 80 remarkable photographs by Michael Farrell Scott, lovely drawings and maps, chants and poems, this book documents not only this particular spiritual practice but offers guidance for others wishing to establish similar practices in their own areas.

California State Parks, 2nd Ed.

California State Parks, 2nd Ed. PDF Author:
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898869323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Opening the Gates, Second Edition

Opening the Gates, Second Edition PDF Author: Margot Badran
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Praise for the first edition: "An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept." --Booklist "Anyone interested in good writing should read Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning." --Doris Lessing, The Independent "This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy."--Publishers Weekly "This impressive collection of writings by Arab women... represent s] a powerful series of vignettes by women who were both insightful and gifted, into the lives of women who have lived 'behind the veil' over the last 100 years."--Arab Book World "An expression of indigenous, intrepid feminism in the Arab world."--Ms. "Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell."--Voice Literary Supplement

Alt-Nature

Alt-Nature PDF Author: Saretta Morgan
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896983
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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To foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real. To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and don the lonely pelt. The poems of Alt-Nature move in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling and connection in the American Southwest. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love.

The Spring Flowers Own ; & The Manifestations of the Voyage

The Spring Flowers Own ; & The Manifestations of the Voyage PDF Author: Etel Adnan
Publisher: Post Apollo Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Poetry. "With this book of poems Etel Adnan establishes herself as a major poet who belongs beside internationally acclaimed poets like Transtromer, Bly, Neruda, Vallejo, and Pessoa." Eric Sellin"

Tamalpais Trails

Tamalpais Trails PDF Author: Barry Spitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962071522
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Hiking Marin

Hiking Marin PDF Author: Don Martin
Publisher: Martin Press
ISBN: 9780961704452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Dark Soil

Dark Soil PDF Author: Angie Sijun Lou
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction to animate the secrets of Santa Cruz, the city she’s called home for nearly three decades. Her characters come alive through her signature witty humor and surreal premises, transcending the past and urging themselves into the present to illuminate a hidden geography of this California coastal city unseen in textbooks. Alongside these stories, eight nonfiction writers chart their own counternarratives of place through the greater United States. Diverging and converging in their scale and scope, from an unnamed lot on the bank of the Ohio River to the territory of Guam, their essays use language as an instrument of excavation, uncovering layers of hurt and desire concealed in the land.

The Crookedest Railroad in the World

The Crookedest Railroad in the World PDF Author: Theodore G. Wurm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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"Here is a readable history of the railway's 30 years of existence -- its planning and construction, branch lines, methods of operation. Read about how it pioneered in novel equipment, watering wheels, heating feedwater in the stack, and being one of the first to use oil burning locomotives exclusively"-- book jacket.