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Item specifics
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- Release Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9780062993083
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062993089
ISBN-13
9780062993083
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038263440
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) : Poetry
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Women Authors, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Subjects & Themes / Nature, General
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
"A gorgeous collection of poetry...These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." --Tampa Bay Times, A gorgeous collection of poetry...These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature., Telling a moment is Kingsolver's apt description of what poetry does, and it's what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)... How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness., "Telling a moment is Kingsolver's apt description of what poetry does, and it's what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)... How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness." --Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun, "Telling a moment is Kingsolver's apt description of what poetry does, and it's what she does, stunningly, in How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)... How to Fly is language and observation at their most succulent, moments seized at their peak of ripeness." -- Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun "A gorgeous collection...These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." -- Tampa Bay Times "Kingsolver brings her gifts of observation and reflection to HOW TO FLY...For a reader wanting to escape, to fly while grounded, this book is a map that offers surprise and delight." -- BookPage
Synopsis
"A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." --Tampa Bay Times In this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of numerous literary awards including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are beautifully crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous In her second poetry collection, Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. Altogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It's all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished., "A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." -- Tampa Bay Times In this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of numerous literary awards including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are beautifully crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous In her second poetry collection, Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. Altogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It's all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished., What's to become of our own seeds and betrothals: all these floss-haired children inside us that want to live? Want to move, stay, eat the soil from under the house, move on. Want to hold fast but cannot hold still. I am lifting them up as newborns to the nursery window looking out on the forests of Antarctica. I tell them: This is your home. Tell them: None of this is yours. Do not believe as I did. When the world breaks open, fall apart with her entrails, fall with the stones or fly. Let the crush of it make you into some new thing not yourself See how these trees take the teat of the world and suckle it, drinking time, knowing it is perfect with or without them. Lacking their religion, you will have to make your own. You are the world that stirs. This is the world that waits. From "Forests of Antarctica" Book jacket.
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- v***e (1)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived quickly and was in good condition for a used textbook, just as described. Priced great. Appears just as pictured. Basic level one Spanish textbook which touches on culture as well as grammar and vocabulary. Item was shipped in thin plastic envelope and could've used better packing, but was not damaged during delivery. Would use this seller again.
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