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22 produkter
To the Bone
NEW and SELECTED POEMS
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 1996
378 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study in the English language of the commentaries of Didymus the Blind, who was revered as the foremost Christian scholar of the fourth century and an influential spiritual director of ascetics. The writings of Didymus were censored and destroyed due to his …
Pursuit of a Wound
POEMS
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for his collection To the Bone, Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, Pursuit of a Wound, is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny …
Hundred Himalayas
Essays on Life and Literature
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2012
423 kr
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In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His …
No Sign
Poems
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2012
337 kr
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In Sydney Lea’s poems, purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane, and beauty knows the full range of nature—from the plumed tension of a newborn child twisting away from the ready breast to bright birds lying dead on the winter lawn. Many of these poems are backward looking, savoring the gentle …
Burdens of Formality
Essays on the Poetry of Anthony Hecht
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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One of the most influential modern poets, Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was awarded virtually every major American prize for poetry, including the Pulitzer and the Bollingen. Written mostly by other poets, in styles ranging from the informal to the scholarly, these essays explore Hecht’s image and …
Breath of Parted Lips
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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A collection of 130 poems contributed by Frost Place residents, many of whom have risen to prominence. Some contributors' poems were written during their tenures on the farm. Such poets as Robert Hass, Gary Miranda, Mary Jo Salter, Cleopatra Mathis, Denis Johnson and Stanley Plumly explore the …
Six Sundays Toward a Seventh
Spiritual Poems by Sydney Lea
Av Sydney Lea
Inbunden, 2012
344 kr
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Six Sundays Toward a Seventh
Spiritual Poems by Sydney Lea
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2012
191 kr
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Six Sundays toward a Seventh
Spiritual Poems by Sydney Lea
Av Sydney Lea
E-bok, 2012
279 kr
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These poems--selected from the award-winning poet''s output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human …
Now Look
Av Sydney Lea
Inbunden, 2024
330 kr
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“So good it hurts to read.”—Annie ProulxSet against a backdrop of the remote northern Maine wilderness, Now, Look is a novel about second chances and missed chances. Fishing, hunting, and the pleasures of outdoor life bring together a mismatched pair of friends—weaving back and forth between past …
Place in Mind
A Novel
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2025
351 kr
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The unlikely friendship between professor Brant Healey and Louis, an unlettered, superstitious woodsman, is at the heart of A Place in Mind. These two men love fishing and hunting, the rural Maine landscape, whiskey from tin cups, and the stories that emerge around campfires by cold rivers.
Blainville Testament
Narrative Poems
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2026
219 kr
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This grand collection of poetic narratives by a versatile New England poet/novelist/naturalist demonstrates that his muscular meditative line can be potently adapted to telling the stories we most hope to hear. These poems form a vivid portrait of a compelling region and salt-of-the-earth …
Little Wildness
Some Notes on Rambling
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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What does a good long ramble in the woods tell us about our shared experiences, our loneliness. Is it possible to shed our civilized layers of defensive behavior, our fear of unmasking and discovery, of the unknown or once-known and forgotten? Join celebrated outdoorsman and poet Sydney Lea as he …
Hunting the Whole Way Home
Essays and Poems
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2026
241 kr
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A thoughtful meditation on the central paradox of 20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental earth.
Hundred Himalayas
Essays on Life and Literature
Av Sydney Lea
Inbunden, 2012
1294 kr
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In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His …
Ghost Pain
Poems
Av Sydney Lea
Inbunden, 2008
206 kr
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“Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved—through a long, rich career—into one of America’s most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book.”—T.R. Hummer“Ghost Pain is a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level.”—Stephen DunnThe …
Ghost Pain
Poems
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2005
146 kr
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“Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved—through a long, rich career—into one of America’s most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book.”—T.R. Hummer“Ghost Pain is a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level.”—Stephen DunnThe …
