The Night Sky. Writings on the Poetics of Experience. [Signed by Ann Lauterbach].

Lauterbach, Ann.

ISBN 10: 067003410X / ISBN 13: 9780670034109

Edité par NY: Viking, 2005

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First edition, first printing, of Lauterbach's first collection of nonfiction. A fine copy, in fine dust jacket. This has been SIGNED BY ANN LAUTERBACH in full on the title page, and in addition she has added a brief personal inscription and dated it December 2005, the year of publication. N° de réf. du vendeur 2217

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Titre : The Night Sky. Writings on the Poetics of ...

Éditeur : NY: Viking

Date d'édition : 2005

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

A collection of essays by the poet author of If in Time and HUM explores the writer's advocacy of an active engagement with language and a centrality of art in a democratic society, in a volume that also includes provocative writings on the lives and works of such figures as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Fanny Howe.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

A scintillating collection of essays on language from one of literature's most supple minds

In The Night Sky, her first work of essays, acclaimed poet Ann Lauterbach writes of the ways in which art and poetry are integral and necessary to human conversation. At the center of the book is a series of seven essays, by turns meditative and polemical, that articulate the interstices between Lauterbach's poetics and her experience. She advocates an active encounter with language, at once imaginative and practical, and argues for the importance of art to the well- being of a democratic society. Lauterbach's "nimble and glittering" ( Booklist) writings bring us to a new understanding of the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning, as well as demonstrating the ways in which contemporary philosophy and theory might be integrated with practical knowledge.