A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence

Gander, Forrest

ISBN 10: 159376071X / ISBN 13: 9781593760717

Editore: Counterpoint, 2005

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Riassunto:

A Faithful Existence is a thrilling, lyrical exploration of what it means to be faithful in the act of translation, in scientific and spiritual inquiry, in philosophies of perception, in friendship, and in poetry. Sensual, erudite, and operatic in scope, these essays pay homage to the landscape of the American South, to snapping turtles and anti–particles, to iconoclastic physicists and writers from various countries and epochs, to visionary poets and to poetic hoaxes.



Forrest Gander pops the hood of the standard–issue essay and hotwires it for the 21st century, re–tuning compelling associations and vivid bursts of insight into the quality of immediate experience. He connects with an ethical vision, a bodily consciousness, and a mode of language that might help us to survive the streams of data, the discombobulating media, and the predatory march of "information" that defines our age.

Informazioni sull?autore: Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up, for the most part, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, translation, fiction, and essays. He's the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Howard, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was long-listed for the National Book Award.</p

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Titolo: A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and ...
Casa editrice: Counterpoint
Data di pubblicazione: 2005
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good