Joan dobbie (19 Ergebnisse)

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 220 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.90 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joan Dobbie began writing her 'stone poems' in 1997 when the late Irish poet, Noelle Vial, conducting a Eugene Oregon poetry workshop, gave 'Stone/Isolation'(verbally: 'stone-slash-isolation') as a writing prompt. This triggered something like a geyser of 'stone poems' that kept leaping out of Joan's brain into her computer where they rumbled and roiled for a couple of decades to finally burst out through some long brewing fault in her psyche into this book. These myth-like poems hone in on various facets of life in a troubled relationship through the sharp, unbending, spotlight of stone. Some of the poems are actually funny, some utterly serious. Some have a kind of twisted fairytale quality. All strike deep. In their wake, a reader might never see either 'stone' or 'isolation' or in fact much of anything else in quite the same way.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Appalled by the violence of Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008-09, Joan Dobbie and her niece Grace Beeler, descendants of Holocaust survivors, issued a call for poems by writers of 'Palestinian or Jewish heritage . . . for an anthology that strives for understanding . . . in the belief that poetry can create understanding and understanding can dull hatred.'This book is a tribute to resourceful imaginations. Its purpose is to give readers an occasion to perceive the aspirations and passions of those whose lives have been affected by the struggle--in Joseph Conrad's words, 'to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.'The poems are arranged in seven sections, each dealing with an attribute or phase of the Palestine-Israel struggle. When possible, selections alternate between Jewish and Arab authors, effecting dissonance in subject, emphasis, and attitude--an uneasy multiculturalism.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. An anthology of Palestinian and Jewish poems that strives for understandingKlappentextAn anthology of Palestinian and Jewish poems that strives for understanding.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 136 pages. 10.80x8.30x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.