Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison - Couverture souple

Lamberton, Ken

 
9781562791162: Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1562791168 ISBN 13 : 9781562791162
Editeur : Mercury House, 2013

Synopsis

From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would like you to believe his book, ``Wilderness and Razor Wire,'' is about the smell of creosote and rain on the wind, about hawkmoths dipping from the wells of cactus. Don't believe him. Don't be misled by the drawings of brittlebush and silverleaf oak (all done by Lamberton himself), or the well-intentioned, avuncular foreword by Richard Shelton, who taught Lamberton writing in prison workshops and at the University of Arizona. Though the nature writing here may be some of the best to come our way in a generation, this is not first and foremost a book about poppies and peppergrass. It is about the soul in pain. Reading it is like chatting with someone on the street and suddenly noticing there is blood running down his side. All of which is to say that Lamberton (for the past 12 years an inmate of Tucson's Santa Rita Prison) has written something entirely original: an edgy, ferocious, subtly complex collection of essays on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature, whose true subject, and greatest accomplishment, may be its own narrative voice.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would like you to believe his book, ``Wilderness and Razor Wire,'' is about the smell of creosote and rain on the wind, about hawkmoths dipping from the wells of cactus. Don't believe him. Don't be misled by the drawings of brittlebush and silverleaf oak (all done by Lamberton himself), or the well-intentioned, avuncular foreword by Richard Shelton, who taught Lamberton writing in prison workshops and at the University of Arizona. Though the nature writing here may be some of the best to come our way in a generation, this is not first and foremost a book about poppies and peppergrass. It is about the soul in pain. Reading it is like chatting with someone on the street and suddenly noticing there is blood running down his side. All of which is to say that Lamberton (for the past 12 years an inmate of Tucson's Santa Rita Prison) has written something entirely original: an edgy, ferocious, subtly complex collection of essays on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature, whose true subject, and greatest accomplishment, may be its own narrative voice.

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Éditeur
Mercury House
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1562791168
ISBN 13 
9781562791162
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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