Автор: Lowen Cynthia Название: The Cloud That Contained the Lightning ISBN: 0820345644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820345642 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2633.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using the character of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” as a jumping-off point, The Cloud That Contained the Lightning explores the kinds of ethical choices we face as individuals and as a society with respect to the innovations and inventions we pursue. How are our fears, obsessions, prejudices and cultures manifested in the ways we apply new technologies, such as the splitting of the atom? What were the attitudes that resulted in such a destructive invention? What prompted it to be used on a nation suspected to already be defeated?By weaving together the voices of Oppenheimer, his wife and brother, hibakusha (Japanese for “explosion-affected people”) and the mythological figures of Cronos and his children, Lowen creates a dialogue out of a vacuum of communication and imagines the kind of exchanges that might have led to a different outcome than the tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In an exploration of our tendency for selective amnesia, this collection asks a critical question: How quickly will the forgotten lessons of the past allow us to repeat the tragic chapters of our history?
Описание: In this brutally honest portrait of what it`s like to be a caregiver, Toronto writer Sonya K. Singh bravely serves up her own experience as a lifeline to others. Anyone who has felt the seismic changes brought on by full-time caregiving will recognize themselves in these pages.
Автор: Lafleche Ellen Название: Walking Into Lightning ISBN: 1732952124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732952126 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2648.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
After her husband died of ALS in 2014, poet Ellen LaFleche began writing of physical love and loss, of the complications of memory, of the small, personal, persistent sorrows that lived with her every day. These poems push back against clinical theories of bereavement by validating the necessary persistence of grief and remembering. They also challenge platitudes about the easy comfort of memories.
The poem "Unbearable," for example, describes the sensory joys of the couple's honeymoon:
We splurged on fine wine and watched sunset spread its slow flush across evening's throat...
I tipped a shell against his lips and told him to drink. Too sandy, he said, too salty, but he swallowed the broth, wiping his beard with the knuckled swipes of a pre-historic man.
Now, memories of the salty taste of a littleneck clam bring an intense mixture of joy and sorrow.
Memory also fails, erases: "Your face is fading into my brain's neuronal mist," the poet writes, and "I remember how you carried home a bouquet of foliage. / I don't remember the spider that crawled up your sleeve."
The sensual, recurrent imagery of Walking into Lightning - fire, ocean water, corn fields, thunder, birth, the pleasures of physical love - spiral through the poems, linking them in a long, tangled journey through bereavement and loss.
This is a remarkable book for the bereaved, unsentimental and undistracted, profoundly moving and cathartic.
Автор: Freeman Anna Название: Gingering The World From The Inside ISBN: 1909136107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909136106 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gingering The World From The Inside captures the comic genius that has made Anna Freeman a leading figure on the performance poetry scene.
Автор: Orr Gregory Название: River Inside the River: Poems ISBN: 0393239748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393239744 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3325.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Three gorgeous poetic sequences that combine the intensity of lyric with the thematic scope and range of narrative and myth.
Автор: McEntyre Marilyn Chandler Название: Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out ISBN: 0983463972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983463979 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2921.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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