Winter island press (17 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. When Suzanne Pinto, 57, was invited to join the team of rowers for the 2600-mile trans-oceanic Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race and to potentially break the record for the oldest woman ever to row any ocean in a mixed crew, it took less than 24 hours for her to jump at the chance. And then the demons arrived: How in the world could this middle-aged woman possibly survive such a ridiculous escapade? Rowing Home chronicles the voyage of a bold and buoyant trailblazer determined to live up to the expectations she laid out for her kids from Day One: "If you are scared of something, you have to do it." The trials begin long before the crew hit the open sea and grow to epic proportions along the way. Massive waves, broken equipment, ruined food supplies, flying fish to the face, and grueling inter-crew conflict all add to the ordeal of a lifetime. Pinto's poignant mix of storytelling, journal entries, rowing facts, and razor sharp character observations - sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing - offers readers an inside look at one of the most nautically treacherous and socially fraught challenges of the modern age.…

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

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Edwards, Alex (illustrator).

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Edwards, Alex (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most Americans dislike poetry because of how it's taught in the lower grades- or at least how it was taught when Kessler was a kid. A poem was a kind of scary intelligence test. At best, a puzzle. What is Emily Dickinson saying in ''Hope' is the thing with feathers' Or What symbolism is Robert Frost employing in 'The Road Not Taken' As he tells it in Self-Portrait with Tree, Kessler was lucky in his teachers, the handful who could hear the mermaids singing, and found his way to Shelley and Whitman, Masters and Sandberg, Pound and Wilbur, Plath and Sexton, Sharon Olds and Philip Levine, and so on.Over the years, Kessler thought of himself not as a poet but as a friend of poetry and of poets. His calling would be fiction writing. As a professor at Salem State, he was expected to teach fiction writing, of course, but not only that. There was poetry writing and nonfiction too (yes, and lots and lots of freshman comp). Over his three decades there, he wrote poetry along with his students, often shaping work to illustrate the issues of craft discussed in class.He also wrote a novel, a long one topping over 600 pages in manuscript. (Whatever its merits, commercial appeal evidently was not one of them, and Edelman Unsung remains unpublished.) Among the book's characters is a poet-a mercurial, sometimes strident, sometimes witty, feminist poet. Her poems are a feature of this novel. Kessler wrote them.This collection of poems is a mix: the poems the writer wrote for himself all along, the poems written with the didactic issues of craft in mind, the poems of his imagined feminist firebrand. Perhaps you can tell which is which.It's been said that when poets turn to fiction writing, the results are often beautiful, with a prose surface that simply sings and with observations that are as subtle as they are precise. And yet, and yet, when we fiction writers turn to writing poetry . . . well, often it's best to just avert your eyes. May it not be the case here.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Issue III. Cover by Fred Buck. Edited by Paul Kahn. Quarto. 54pp. Stapled illustrated covers. Light toning along the edges, a couple of small bumps, near fine. Literary anthology with contributions from Larry Eigner, Lee Harwood, Maureen Owen, Robert Richards, Dan Devine, and Alex Grey, and others.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guided by Love is a collection of sermons by Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Rebecca M. Bryan. These missives were delivered to her congregation in Newburyport, Massachusetts, between 2018 - 2024. Rev. Rebecca reflects upon enduring issues of critical importance today. Her topics include the climate, love, healing, racial justice, the intersection between religion and politics, authenticity, community, grief, and joy. Her words are honest, inspiring, and sometimes funny. Her open heart challenges the reader to consider important topics that all of us will benefit from as we find our way in this troubled and beautiful world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guided by Love is a collection of sermons by Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Rebecca M. Bryan. These missives were delivered to her congregation in Newburyport, Massachusetts, between 2018-2024. Rev. Rebecca reflects upon enduring issues of critical importance today. Her topics include the climate, love, healing, racial justice, the intersection between religion and politics, authenticity, community, grief, and joy. Her words are honest, inspiring, and sometimes funny. Her open heart challenges the reader to consider important topics that all of us will benefit from as we find our way in this troubled and beautiful world.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Periodical. Cover by Fred Buck. Edited by Paul Kahn. Quarto. 54pp.Side stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine with some light scattered foxing. Literary anthology with contributions from Larry Eigner, Lee Harwood, Maureen Owen, Robert Richards, Dan Devine, and Alex Grey, among others.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Walk into any great concert hall and you will find an orchestra - dozens of musicians, scores of instruments, centuries of accumulated craft - and yet the music that emerges feels like a single, breathing voice. How does that happen What is each instrument actually doing, and what kind of person is drawn to play it This book offers a warmly personal answer. Through a series of short, luminous portraits - part poem, part color - the author leads us through every section of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the ensemble he called home for over thirty years. Each instrument gets its moment: not a technical manual, but a character sketch, the kind of insight that can only come from a lifetime spent on the inside.We meet the flutist, who sends half her air into the room in an act of continuous generosity. We encounter the contra bassoonist, whose low, rumbling entrance signals that something enormous is about to happen. We sit beside the harpist during a great arpeggio - a shower of multicolored rain - and feel the string bass not just with our ears but in our bones. The conductor appears as both authority and humble servant. The trumpeter, we learn, is born wanting to be heard. The bass clarinet leads us quietly into shadow.Alongside each portrait are vivid collage illustrations that bring the instruments and their worlds to life - playful, colorful, and full of the same spirit of wonder that runs through every page.This is a book for music lovers, concertgoers, and anyone who has ever sat in a darkened hall and felt the music move through them. It is also a love letter - to the composers who wrote the music, to the musicians who devoted their lives to it, and above all to the colleagues of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, whose artistry and camaraderie inspired every word.Come listen. The orchestra is about to begin.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, a curious, insightful Tamsin Bennett comes of age apprenticed to her Grandmother Cat, child of a healer-mystic accused of witchery.When Tamsin is stricken one morning with unearthly visions of her Papa, that day inexplicably he is found dead. Now keeping a tavern in a harbor town, she hides in plain sight to carry on the healing work of her foremothers, protects her family from danger, and chooses her lovers with particular care. Edwards, Alex (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 54 pp., Soft Covers, Good+ with small tears, creasing, edge wear, shelf wear, corners dog-eared, minor staining. Eigner's copy. Photographs, illustrations.