Voices, Places : : Essays

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Call Number: 814.54 Ma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Preface: Reading in place -- TRAVELERS -- Letter from Tasmania -- Travelers: Herodotus and Patrick Leigh Fermor -- The silk road of poetry: Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald -- The unseeable, unsayable word -- Reading Greece -- Walking into the heart of Greece: Kevin Andrews -- So he'll go no more a-roving: Patrick Leigh Fermor -- The news from everywhere: Bruce Chatwin -- EXILES, ECCENTRICS, IMMIGRANTS -- Man of action, man of letters: Joseph Conrad -- A mad master of modernism: Ezra Pound -- Creating a literary hero: James Joyce -- Awe for Auden -- The name inside the name: Kevin Hart -- Ariel and Co.: Les Murray, Cally Conan-Davies -- VOICES, PLACES -- Voices, places -- To humanize the "inhumanist": Robinson Jeffers -- Belle Turnbull's western narrative -- A poet of the unaffiliated left: Thomas McGrath -- The western prophets: Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey.
Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography and time, considering writers who traveled, who emigrated or were exiled, and who often shaped the literature of their homelands. He writes of seasoned travelers (Patrick Leigh Fermor, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Herodotus himself), and writers as far flung as Omar Khayyam, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, James Joyce, and Les Murray. In the end, he turns to his own native region, the American West, with Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Robinson Jeffers, Belle Turnbull, and Thomas McGrath.--Amazon.com.

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