Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807116272
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The human mind shapes disparate landscapes to its own contours in this rich and varied collection of poems by Catharine Savage Brosman. The canyon country of the Southwest, parts of Virginia, the Gulf Coast, France, and the Caribbean figure prominently in the poet’s meditations on the alchemy that occurs in that groove where the mind meets the world. Brosman uses a variety of verse forms to explore her theme, which is the triumph of human perspective. Her technical mastery and virtuosity support a wisdom that is as distilled as the desert air. The title poem opens the collection and introduces the theme: What was proposed in ecstasies of clouds and later, vast illuminations only seems transcendent, trumpeting glory; the light consumes itself, without desire. At dusk, images flush up on radiant wings, and fill the air with cries from distant flights. Throughout the volume, the poet ponders the connections between action and love, between present and past, between people and places. She displays an extraordinary sensitivity to landscapes and to the rituals of place, and in “Peaches”: This fruit preserved in husbanding happiness for future weeks; something of autumn is already in their ripening, the reconciliation of reason and love. All of the poems speak to the search for a language by which to apprehend the experience of the world. In some, this search is more overt, as in “Crossing to Evian”: . . . Later, friends will ask us for accounts, supposing that we bring back something neat and telling, like a photograph; but have you tried to fit a glimpse of order, knowing and perfected in its resplendent gaze, into the journey’s darkness, the moving contours of the mind? Brosman’s voice is very much her own and one that has a great deal to say in this extraordinary work.
Author: Rob MacGregor
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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As humanity’s collective consciousness evolves and expands, more of us are experiencing phenomena—voices no one else hears, visions no one else sees, intense intuitive feelings that presage the future or enable us to telepathically connect to loved ones. Some of us communicate with the dead, see interdimensional beings, claim to have been abducted by aliens. And some of us experience synchronicities that defy the odds. Are we outliers? Or are we, as a growing number of psychiatrists, scientists, and researchers now recognize, tapping into a matrix of reality far more vast and complex than what science currently recognizes?
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 185743269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1787
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Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807120507
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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In Passages, Catharine Savage Brosman presents journeys between the world and spirit, journeys that share an axis of yearning for a realm as pure as desire. Brosman refracts through metrical virtuosity, historical imagination, and a vision like cleansing light a world alive with coruscating color and sensual textures. Each line is subtle, quiet, yet breathtaking in its precision, and the spare eloquence of Brosman’s perfectly executed gestures invests with stunning pathos poems such as “Wind”—which reflects a woman abandoned by husband, children, and faith itself—and “Carnival,” in which a lonely aging woman at Mardi Gras muses. Whether rendering a speaker’s spiritual communion with Mozart, the febrile longings of a woman caught in adultery in French Algeria, or a love letter by Madame d’Epinay (deftly couched in the metrics and tropes of eighteenth-century France), Brosman moves effortlessly from the broodingly intimate perspectives of other eyes, other souls, to the most abstract of aesthetic meditations. These are poems of wit and passion, poems that beg to be read and reread, and this remarkable collection reminds us again and again of the passages that open into the lives of our imagination.
Author: Donald J. Hagerty
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Truly awesome, the Canyon de Chelly National Monument has inspired artists from the first people to inscribe figures on the massive stone to contemporary photographers and painters. Hagerty does a good job of combining informative historical essays, profiles of artists and their methods of representing the canyon, and photographs of the place and the art. The volume captures the poetic spirit of Canyon de Chelly and its power.
Author: Adele King
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349220035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the Algerian setting of the novel. Comparative studies show Camus's relation to the New Novel, to Greene and Orwell, to Jules Roy, and to Sartre.
Author: Robert D. Denham
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628469536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the flourishing period during which the term Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana. The study consists in part of literary history and biography. When available and appropriate, each discussion—arranged chronologically—provides pertinent personal information on authors, as well as publishing facts. Readers will find also summaries and evaluation of key texts, some virtually unknown, others of difficult access. Brosman illuminates the biographies and works of Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn, George Washington Cable, Grace King, and Adolphe Duhart, among others. In addition, she challenges views that appear to be skewed regarding canon formation. The book places emphasis on poetry and fiction, reaching from early nineteenth-century writing through the twentieth century to selected works by poets still writing in the early twenty-first century. A few plays are treated also, especially by Victor Séjour. Louisiana Creole Literature examines at length the writings of important Francophone figures, and certain Anglophone novelists likewise receive extended treatment. Since much of nineteenth-century Louisiana literature was transnational, the book considers Creole-based works which appeared in Paris as well as those published locally.
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138843
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado landscapes and the island of Sicily. Brosman's collection reflects on the recent "light years" of the poet's life -- which she characterizes as "silken ? slipping smoothly off" like a gown.
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496822137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the state to the work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic tradition. In Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide authors Catharine Savage Brosman and Olivia McNeely Pass assess the achievements of Louisiana poets from the past hundred years who, Brosman and Pass assert, deserve both public notice and careful critical examination. Louisiana Poets presents the careers and works of writers whose verse is closely connected to the peoples, history, and landscapes of Louisiana or whose upbringing or artistic development occurred in the state. Brosman and Pass chose poets based on the scope, abundance, and excellence of their work; their critical reception; and the local and national standing of the writer and work. The book treats a wide range of forty poets—from national bestsellers to local celebrities—detailing their histories and output. Intended to be of broad interest and easy to consult, Louisiana Poets showcases the corpus of Louisiana poetry alongside its current profile. Brosman and Pass have created a guide that provides a way for readers to discover, savor, and celebrate poets who have been inspired in and by the Pelican State.
