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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
283 kr
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Robert Michael Pyle's fifth full-length compilation, The Last Man in Willapa, contains more than seventy-five poems, most of which are entirely new since his previous collection (The Tidewater Reach, 2018).Within these pages, readers can find people, creatures, places, and stochastic happenings both large and small. Pyle's longtime followers will recognize poems that are lyrical, story-based, and descriptive, usually featuring species, selves, and lifeways other than his own, but derived from his personal experience. Pyle writes from the details of the real, physical world, where nothing is beneath notice.A few of the book's sections orbit specific subjects. "The Cuba Poems" came from a week in Havana with other writers, Cuban and American, and Pyle's run-ins with the nature of the place. "The Children of the Night" began with a dream that drew forth memories from childhood with his brother and others. "From the River" pays homage to the Pacific Northwest where he lives and writes. Often witty and with an eye to the upside in spite of the facts, Pyle's are poems in which every story paints a picture, grace is seldom withheld, and love is never far behind.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
189 kr
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The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn't know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world of their relationship and the story of a unique artistic figure of the twentieth century.After the controversial exhibit of his ""Red Paintings,"" painter Jake Berthot (1939-2014) moved his studio from New York City to a small town upstate. There he began an exploration of landscape - predominantly trees - which he drew and painted almost exclusively until his death from leukemia at age 75. Berthot was often referred to as a ""painter's painter,"" a description he disliked.After tragedy struck his friend Norman's family, Berthot gave them a collection of dialogues and poems by the 13th century Sufi mystic poet Rumi. One of the poems reads: I said: What about my heart?He said: Tell me what you hold inside itI said: Pain and sorrow.He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place the light enters you.Norman and Berthot often discussed and debated these ""spiritual works,"" as well as any number of other subjects. At Berthot's own prompting, Norman recorded some of their conversations and also kept detailed journals of his many visits.A ""pastiche of inimitable farewells"" (W. S. Merwin), this story has all the intimate forms of memory: letters, conversation, and anecdote, woven together in a narratively inventive, courageous, and deeply affecting portrait of friendship.