Author: Pamela Gemin
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ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Thankless, mundane, and “never done,” housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its sensory delights and immediate gratification, sometimes cherishing the undeniable link it provides to their mothers and grandmothers. In Sweeping Beauty, a number of these poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse. For many, housekeeping provides the key to a state of mind approaching meditation, a state of mind also conducive to making poems. The more than eighty contributors to Sweeping Beauty embrace this state and confirm that women are pioneers and inventors as well as life-givers and nurturers. “My fingers are forks, my tongue is a rose . . . / I turn silver spoons into rabbit stew / make quinces my thorny upholstery . . . / how else could the side of beef walk / with the sea urchin roe?” sings the cook in Natasha Sajé's ode to kitchen alchemy. “I love the notion that we can take our most poisonous angers, our most despairing or humiliated or stalemated moments, and make something good of them--something tensile and enduring,” says Leslie Ullman. Whether we are fully present in our tasks or “gone in the motion” of performing them, whether our stovetops are home to “stewpots of discontent” or grandmother's favorite jam, something is always cooking.
Sweeping Beauty
Author: Pamela Gemin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Thankless, mundane, and “never done,” housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its sensory delights and immediate gratification, sometimes cherishing the undeniable link it provides to their mothers and grandmothers. In Sweeping Beauty, a number of these poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse. For many, housekeeping provides the key to a state of mind approaching meditation, a state of mind also conducive to making poems. The more than eighty contributors to Sweeping Beauty embrace this state and confirm that women are pioneers and inventors as well as life-givers and nurturers. “My fingers are forks, my tongue is a rose . . . / I turn silver spoons into rabbit stew / make quinces my thorny upholstery . . . / how else could the side of beef walk / with the sea urchin roe?” sings the cook in Natasha Sajé's ode to kitchen alchemy. “I love the notion that we can take our most poisonous angers, our most despairing or humiliated or stalemated moments, and make something good of them--something tensile and enduring,” says Leslie Ullman. Whether we are fully present in our tasks or “gone in the motion” of performing them, whether our stovetops are home to “stewpots of discontent” or grandmother's favorite jam, something is always cooking.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Thankless, mundane, and “never done,” housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its sensory delights and immediate gratification, sometimes cherishing the undeniable link it provides to their mothers and grandmothers. In Sweeping Beauty, a number of these poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse. For many, housekeeping provides the key to a state of mind approaching meditation, a state of mind also conducive to making poems. The more than eighty contributors to Sweeping Beauty embrace this state and confirm that women are pioneers and inventors as well as life-givers and nurturers. “My fingers are forks, my tongue is a rose . . . / I turn silver spoons into rabbit stew / make quinces my thorny upholstery . . . / how else could the side of beef walk / with the sea urchin roe?” sings the cook in Natasha Sajé's ode to kitchen alchemy. “I love the notion that we can take our most poisonous angers, our most despairing or humiliated or stalemated moments, and make something good of them--something tensile and enduring,” says Leslie Ullman. Whether we are fully present in our tasks or “gone in the motion” of performing them, whether our stovetops are home to “stewpots of discontent” or grandmother's favorite jam, something is always cooking.
Sweeping Beauty
Author: Pamela Gemin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877459675
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877459675
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Sherwood Anderson records his impressions of the American scene.
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ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Sherwood Anderson records his impressions of the American scene.
Vogue
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Sweeping the Dust
Author: Ruth Lauer-Manenti
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590562739
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In this book, a companion to An Offering of Leaves, much-loved Jivamukti Yoga teacher Ruth Lauer-Manenti ("Lady Ruth") offers over forty more of the "dharma talks" that she gives at the beginning of each yoga class. Her reflections-complete with the Sanskrit verses that are the source of her studies, as well as the English transliteration and translation-are at once poignant and practical, and both minutely observed and expansive in their implications for our inner and outer lives. These teachings on yogic principles open up the emotional and spiritual pathways that allow us to deepen our yoga practice and go to the essence of the ancient wisdom contained within.
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590562739
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In this book, a companion to An Offering of Leaves, much-loved Jivamukti Yoga teacher Ruth Lauer-Manenti ("Lady Ruth") offers over forty more of the "dharma talks" that she gives at the beginning of each yoga class. Her reflections-complete with the Sanskrit verses that are the source of her studies, as well as the English transliteration and translation-are at once poignant and practical, and both minutely observed and expansive in their implications for our inner and outer lives. These teachings on yogic principles open up the emotional and spiritual pathways that allow us to deepen our yoga practice and go to the essence of the ancient wisdom contained within.
Garden-making
Author: Elsa Rehmann
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ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Artist
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Poor White
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own," wrote H.L. Mencken, speaking of Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," Anderson, he said, is "America's Most Distinctive Novelist." "Poor White," which Anderson wrote in 1920, explores the spiritual and emotional sterility of a success-oriented machine age. Like all of Anderson's tales, it's an important social commentary, and not to be overlooked.
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own," wrote H.L. Mencken, speaking of Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," Anderson, he said, is "America's Most Distinctive Novelist." "Poor White," which Anderson wrote in 1920, explores the spiritual and emotional sterility of a success-oriented machine age. Like all of Anderson's tales, it's an important social commentary, and not to be overlooked.
Vanity Fair
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Magazine of Art
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description