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8 produkter

1. 

   Occupied World

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2006

   343 kr

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   In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be occupied. In her brilliant new collection, Alice Major's poems concern themselves with human occupation: how we occupy cities; how we occupy ourselves as …

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   Office Tower Tales

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2008

   444 kr

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   In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother …

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   Memory's Daughter

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2010

   343 kr

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   This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of Memory were the Muses. Alice Major listens carefully to their voices. ".tender, wise, beautifully …

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   Intersecting Sets

   A Poet Looks at Science

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2011

   404 kr

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   Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why …

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   Standard candles

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2015

   261 kr

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   Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from the …

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   Welcome to the Anthropocene

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2018

   403 kr

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   Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, …

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   Triangularity

   Essays on Poetry, Science, and Spirit

   Av Alice Major

   Häftad, 2026

   328 kr

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   In a world defined by silos and specialization, Alice Major’s Triangularity is a profound and timely mingling of big ideas about how things fit together. Religion and science are often considered separate, even antagonistic, ways of thinking about existence, but in these essays and interspersed …

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   Reimagining Fire

   The Future of Energy

   Av Eveline Kolijn, Alice Major m. fl.

   Häftad, 2023

   377 kr

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