Source of the River
Published on 13. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-63534-413-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection presents through dramatic monologues the journeys of self-discovery of six historical figures: Danish author Isak Dinesen, who found her creative voice on a farm in Africa; 18th-century explorer Col. John May in the Ohio frontier; one personification of the Hindu Living Goddess; 19th-century British Consul to Zanzibar Atkins Hamerton; and 19th-century British explorers in search of the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
65 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63534-413-4 (9781635344134)
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Deborah Fleming is author of two previous collections of poems, Morning, Winter Solstice (2012) and Into a New Country (2016), as well as a chapbook, Migrations (2005), and a novel, Without Leave (2014), winner of the Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press. She has also published "A man who does not exist": The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (1995), Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers (2015), W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism (2000), and Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (1992) as well as articles on Yeats, Jeffers, Eamon Grennan, and Aldo Leopold. Four of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Winner of a Vandewater Poetry Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Council of Learned Societies, she is director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. Currently she lives on a farm in northeast Ohio.