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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about 'clear unspeakable joy' and 'just the wish to know' with a radiant new afterword, written during the pandemic and reflecting on current times. This expanded paperback edition also includes new photographs by the author.A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a child finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, 'a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me.' She discovers-often at night, often in nature-the pleasures of rescuing 'a fleeting thought.' Woolgathering calls up our own memories, as the child 'glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths.' Smith shares the fierce, vital pleasures of stargazing and wandering. Her new Afterword, penned during the quarantine, opens new horizons in 'the scarcely charted landscape of memory governed by clouds.'Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation in Smith's singular language, acclaimed as 'glorious' (NPR), 'spellbinding' (Booklist), 'rare and ferocious' (Salon), and 'shockingly beautiful' (New York Magazine).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders's 'straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness.'Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here-humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely-are something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but-inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality-might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes-he's a large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me, I don't know.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this witty 'how-to' guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: 'I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,' she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave-anonymously-for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life.She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. 'I sigh to be a poet,' Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. 'I groan to be an editor,' Szymborska responds.Szymborska stubbornly insists on poetry's 'prosaic side': 'Let's take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we ' This delightful compilation, translated by the peerless Clare Cavanagh, will delight readers and writers alike.Perhaps you could learn to love in prose.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous 'Labors of Herakles') to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome.'I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape,' said Anselm Kiefer, painter of forests grown tall on bones.