A Habit of Landscape
Published on 13. October 2023
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-59924-175-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Habit of Landscape celebrates the convergent meanings of habit and habitat. each sharing the words "to dwell." These poems hold sensate moments-family experiences, inner revelations, transformative places. A realized kinship between the human and natural worlds signals the inclusiveness of place. Not something "out there," this shared space-personal or global- often surprises in the poem's turn. Like flash narratives these poems contain worlds in the vibrating fabric of the instant- forgotten, dismissed, previously unseen. Whether an elegy for a brother, an encounter with a pronghorn, or the whispers surrounding adoption, these lyric pieces speak to the sacrality of the moment.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59924-175-3 (9781599241753)
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Shelley Armitage, professor, writer, naturalist, conservationist lives in the Chihuahuan desert in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is author of eight award-winning books, most recently Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place, a Kirkus starred book cited as one of the best memoirs of the year, and a finalist for the May Sarton prize, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the Collins P. Carr award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has been featured on NPR and among her other honors are a Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship, a Distinguished Chair in American Literature Fulbright in Warsaw, Fulbright awards in Finland and Portugal, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, three National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, and a Rockefeller grant.