Vermin
A Traveler's Bestiary
Published on 1. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-947980-67-9 (ISBN)
Description
Lice, leeches, roaches, and rats, what people call "vermin" are fascinating cultures with vivid life styles. Marilyn Stablein, their chronicler, is a non-judgmental and generous writer who watches these nonhumans with serene detachment, humor, and uncanny empathy. Stablein may be the reincarnated Sumi-e (1420-1507), the master of ink painting who revealed universes with a few brush strokes. She reports in elegant prose the lives of creatures we usually crunch, tear, ignore or recoil from, and in so doing, she writes also the marvelous adventures of two contemporary traveling monks.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-947980-67-9 (9781947980679)
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Marilyn Stablein is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer and mixed media artist whose sculptural artist's books, altered books and performance art concern visual narrative, travelog and memoir.
Her books include Houeboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu (2019); Night Travels to Tibet; Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir; a collection of eco-essays set in the Northwest, Climate of Extremes: Landscape and Imagination; Splitting Hard Ground: Poems (New Mexico Book Award) and Bind, Alter Fold, a monograph of her artist books.
Her collages, assemblages and artist books are exhibited internationally and are in private and public collections including: SUNY Buffalo, Yale University Beinecke Library, Brown University Library, The British Library and University of Washington, Suzallo and Allen Libraries Special Collections.
She lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon.
Visit: marilynstablein.com