Green is the Orator
1st Edition
Published on 2. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-520-26242-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Green is the Orator" follows on Sarah Gridley's brilliant first collection, "Weather Eye Open", in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley's deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" and the writings of Charles Darwin, Peter Mark Roget, William Morris, William James, and Henri Bergson. Gridley's own idiom is compressed, original, and full of unexpected pleasures. This unusual book, at once austere and full of life, reflects a penetrating mind at work - one that is thinking through and re-presenting romantic and modernist traditions of nature.
Reviews / Votes
"Orator's speech springs from revelation and desire, but its heart is in its observational exactness and reticence." Kenyon ReviewMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-26242-3 (9780520262423)
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Sarah Gridley
Green is the Orator
E-Book
04/2010
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€24.49
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Person
Sarah Gridley is Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence at Case Western Reserve University and is the author of Weather Eye Open (UC Press).
Content
Contents 1 Coefficient Salt Marsh, Thick with Behaviors Table of Consanguinity (The Cousin Chart) Diminution of the Clear Thing Half Seas Over Jardins sous la Ppluie Sweet Habit of the Blood Is He Decently Put Back Together? Under the Veil of Wildness Coming to the Festival of the God of Boundaries Makes an Arrangement Return of the Native to the Widespread Hour Midlander Thicket Play Honey Ants Recessive Sending Owls to Athens William James, Henry James Arethusa Arrowsic Eidothea Sunrise with Sea Monsters Where Hardly Hearth Exists 2 Sonnet on Fire The Bad Infinity Baroque Miscellany Baroque A General Discrimination of Synonyms Baroque Antonyms & Intermediaries Baroque First Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide, Pneumatic Institute, 1799 Baroque Second Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide 3 Disheveled Holiness Medieval Physics A Boredom of Spirit Gothic Tropical Film in Place of a Legal Document Japonisme Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Acousmatic The Orator's Maximal Likelihood The Beauty of Where We Have Been Living Anatomy of Listening Sighting If It Be Not Now Ovation Morse Gives Up Portraiture Intrinsic Intimations Constable of the Sweet Oblong Work Salon/Saloon Strokes Building Box (Atlantic) Posthumous Oratorium Summer Reading Notes Acknowledgments