Sowell Emerging Writers Prize – serie
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4 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
199 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Water is a collection of poetry, watercolors, and pen-and-ink drawings from poet and author Susan Brind Morrow. Water is the organizing concept; it is also the urtext of the artistic process, the window between the natural world and our representations of it.The interplay between the media creates a unique reading experience that will appeal to readers of poetry and art books. Morrow’s award-winning work on Egyptian poetry and religious texts manifests here in transcriptions of hieroglyphs and accompanying ink drawings.Water is a unique ars poetica for one of our most singular contemporary American voices.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
321 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
An abandoned place, a dishevelled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as "going to seed."But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sending out compressed packets filled with the energy needed to sow new life. A pause from flowering gives a chance for the seeds to form.In a time of urgent environmental change, of pressing social injustice, and of ever-advancing technologies and global connections, we often respond with acceleration--a speeding up and scaling up of our strategies to counter the damage and destruction around us. But what if we take the seeds as a starting point: what might we learn about work, sustainability, and relationships on this beleaguered planet if we slowed down, stepped back, and held off?Going to Seed explores questions of idleness, considering the labour both of humans and of the myriad other inhabitants of the world. Drawing on science, literature, poetry, and personal observation, these winding and sometimes playful essays pay attention to the exertions and activities of the other-than-human lives that are usually excluded from our built and settled spaces, asking whose work and what kinds of work might be needed for a more just future for all.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
211 kr
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Ibe Liebenberg's first book-length collection of poetry, Birds at Night, explores themes of loss, trauma, PTSD, indigeneity, and familial relationships. These brief, intense poems amplify the sensations and silences of interior moments of crisis and catharsis. A haunting meditation on what keeps us up at night, Liebenberg invites the reader to contend with their own responses to exigent circumstances. Drawing on the resiliency of the natural world in the face of changing climate, birds, wolves, and fire populate the stanzas. Migration and adaptation are the poetic subjects, but they are also the embodied language of each taut line."In whatever tongue they sing," Birds at Night captures the need for empathy and understanding for the natural world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
276 kr
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When sixteen-year-old Ignatius “Egg” Girard is told he’ll be spending the next three months on his estranged grandfather’s failing farm in Hale Creek, Kentucky, getting the place ready to sell, he foresees chores, isolation, and the erosion of everything he’d planned for his summer vacation.At first, Egg is resolved simply to endure: the scorching, tedious days; his grandfather’s silences punctuated by harsh outbursts. But then Egg makes two bewildering discoveries. Hidden away in his mother’s childhood bedroom, he unearths a bundle of decades-old letters written in a language he cannot decipher. When he shows them to his grandfather, the reaction is immediate and unsettling: the letters are thrown away without explanation. Then there’s the startling encounter with a secretive ground-dwelling bird thought to have gone extinct in the 1930s, drawing a biologist and her team to the property just as it’s about to be put up for sale.Blending dry humor with emotional depth, Cupido Cupido navigates family estrangement, cultural inheritance, and the complex act of growing up. As Egg wrestles with questions of identity and legacy, the farm becomes a place of unlikely discoveries—about the people who raised him, the profound weight of their shared histories, and the unspoken ways love persists through distance and time.Likely to appeal to readers of Ann Patchett, Celeste Ng, and Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily Grandy’s Cupido Cupido is a quietly powerful exploration of memory, belonging, and the fine line between what is lost and what might yet be found.