Shaler's Fish: Poems - Rilegato

MacDonald, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0802124631 ISBN 13: 9780802124630

Casa editrice: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Before Helen Macdonald chronicled the experience of adopting a goshawk in her bestselling bookH Is for Hawk, she was a poet. With a masterful ear for musical phrasing as well as an utterly unique way of seeing the earth around her, she writes deft, daring verse; her language is melodic and opulent while her observations are shrewd and incisive. From "the new world":

What is a hand for, but to be held? It is raining
in Georgia it is raining all over the world [. . .]

every moment describes some other music
and I cannot remember banality ever existing.

These poems are lush, lyrical and vibrantly evocative, parsing images from the landscape and then turning inward to consider the human consciousness that witnesses, processes, and manipulates the landscape. From an outstanding literary innovator,Shaler’s Fish is a joyous celebration of the natural world and a profound meditation on being alive in it.

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Praise for Shaler's Fish

"Macdonald is a poet of vision and sound, oracular one moment and playful the next, whose first love and only loyalty is to the music of words." —O, the Oprah Magazine

"Devoted readers of H Is for Hawk will find Macdonald's gift for stunning language, patient curiosity, and expansive wisdom on full display in her poems." —Publishers Weekly

L'autore

Helen Macdonald is the author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling bookH Is for Hawk. She is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian, and naturalist who lives in Cambridge, England. Twitter: @HelenJMacdonald

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• Editore: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0802124631
• ISBN 13: 9780802124630
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 82