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This is a fascinating window into the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

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I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.-with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor, " Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at The New Yorker in the early 1950s. From 1933 until her death in 1979, Bishop published the vast majority of her poems in the magazine's pages. During thos...

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More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic d...

The 5th edition of the prestigious AECT Handbook continues previous efforts to reach outside the traditional instructional design and technology community to the learning sciences and computer information systems communities toward developing a conceptualization of the field. However, given the pervasive and increasingly complex role technology now plays in education since the 1st edition of the Handbook in 1996, the editors have reorganized t...

Conscious Service: Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself will help service providers in all types of human service understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue and discover a renewed energy for serving others. Each of us can learn how to thrive and find fulfillment in our vocations as we make a positive difference in our homes, workplaces, and communities. Using images, storytelling, and practical application exercises, E...

At the behest of his patron, a medieval scribe narrates his ordeal as an inquisitive, befuddled six-year-old on tour with his family troupe of players. Performing their farces across a landscape of war, plague, religious strife and feral cats, they travel from sunny Greece into the uncharted north, playing market fairs and noblemen's banquets, while transporting a hamper of curse-bearing masks that intrude themselves into the boy's dreams and ...

The 5th edition of the prestigious AECT Handbook continues previous efforts to reach outside the traditional instructional design and technology community to the learning sciences and computer information systems communities toward developing a conceptualization of the field. However, given the pervasive and increasingly complex role technology now plays in education since the 1st edition of the Handbook in 1996, the editors have reorganized t...

Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art, " Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, "The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the ...

The Promise, the Promise, the Promise . . . A casual barstool conversation with a mystery man-perhaps a Las Vegas bigwig, perhaps a sociopath-hooks chronic loser Vern McGurren on the chance of a lifetime, requiring a road trip from Chico CA across Yosemite and Death Valley to the monumental stone outcrop of New Mexico's Shiprock. It's a chance to bridge the gap between a desperate father and suicidal son who know each other too well, but it ve...

More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic d...

This volume investigates the relationship between exile ¿ understood broadly to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, and the forcibly `disappeared¿ ¿ and map-making. Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement, yet i

A picture book account of the childhood and formative experiences of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, set against a vivid and sweeping Nova Scotia backdrop. Provides a lesson for young readers in finding the poetry in everyday life.

It's a monstrous maze of a mansion, built by a grief-ridden heiress. A tour guide, about to retire, has given his spiel for so many years that he's gone blind. On this last tour, he's slammed with second sight.He sees the ghosts he's always felt were there: the bedeviled heiress, her servants, and a young carpenter who lands his dream job only to become a lifelong slave to her obsession. The workman's wife makes it to shore, but he's cast adri...

Die amerikanische Lyrikerin Elizabeth Bishop ist hierzulande noch wenig bekannt. Sie war eine ruhelose Seele: Ohne Eltern aufgewachsen, reiste sie von Neuschottland nach Florida, und von dort weiter nach Brasilien. Die einzige Heimat, die sie fand, war die Sprache. Die verblüffenden Bilderwelten ihrer Gedichte ziehen den Leser in den Bann: traumhafte Eisberge und phantastische Landkarten, aber auch Unkraut, das sich in einem Herzen einnistet. ...

Presents, alongside a facsimile of the notebook page from which they are drawn, poems Elizabeth Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique, love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s, poems about her Canadian childhood, and many other works.

Il volume raccoglie due racconti apparsi per la prima volta su due riviste nel 1937 e nel 1938. Due racconti che è stata definita la "Callas della poesia novecentesca".