A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence - Tapa dura

Gander, Forrest

 
9781593760717: A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence
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ISBN 10: 159376071X ISBN 13: 9781593760717
Editorial: Counterpoint, 2005

Sinopsis

A Faithful Existence is a thrilling, lyrical exploration of what it means to be faithful in the act of translation, in scientific and spiritual inquiry, in philosophies of perception, in friendship, and in poetry. Sensual, erudite, and operatic in scope, these essays pay homage to the landscape of the American South, to snapping turtles and anti–particles, to iconoclastic physicists and writers from various countries and epochs, to visionary poets and to poetic hoaxes.



Forrest Gander pops the hood of the standard–issue essay and hotwires it for the 21st century, re–tuning compelling associations and vivid bursts of insight into the quality of immediate experience. He connects with an ethical vision, a bodily consciousness, and a mode of language that might help us to survive the streams of data, the discombobulating media, and the predatory march of "information" that defines our age.

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Acerca del autor

Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up, for the most part, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, translation, fiction, and essays. He's the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Howard, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was long-listed for the National Book Award.</p

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Editorial
Counterpoint
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
159376071X
ISBN 13 
9781593760717
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
224
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