Sea Grapes
Title | Sea Grapes PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Walcott |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 93 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466880449 |
Derek Walcott was aptly described by Laurence Liberman in The Yale Review as "one of the handful of brilliant historic mythologists of our day." Sea Grapes deepens with this major poet's search for true images of the post-Adamic "new world"--especially those of his native Caribbean culture. Walcott's rich and vital naming of the forms of island life is complemented by poems set in America and England, by inward-turning meditations, and by invocations of other poets--Osip Mandelstam, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, James Wright, and Pablo Neruda. On the publication of Selected Poems in 1963, Robert Graves wrote, "Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries." This collection of new poems in every way confirms Walcott's mastery. He is also the author of The Gulf, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, and Another Life.
Secrets of the Sea Grapes
Title | Secrets of the Sea Grapes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael T. Sutton |
Publisher | Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1608440443 |
Sea Grapes and Sea Oats
Title | Sea Grapes and Sea Oats PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Jay Niehaus |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 111 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1532656599 |
These poems wander through life and memory. They explore art, music, and history, but in an atmosphere of subtropical wonder. Beauty and truth are close relations and the author explores both as memories of an earlier Florida compose a world of recall and invitation.
Sea Grapes and Sea Oats
Title | Sea Grapes and Sea Oats PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Jay Niehaus |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1532656610 |
These poems wander through life and memory. They explore art, music, and history, but in an atmosphere of subtropical wonder. Beauty and truth are close relations and the author explores both as memories of an earlier Florida compose a world of recall and invitation.
The Curious World of Seaweed
Title | The Curious World of Seaweed PDF eBook |
Author | Josie Iselin |
Publisher | Heyday Books |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781597144827 |
Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this beautiful volume Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological presence of sixteen seaweeds and kelps that live in the thin region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent--a place of incomparable richness. Each species receives a detailed description of its structure, ecological importance, and humans' scientific inquiry into it, told in scientifically illuminating yet deeply reverent and inspired prose. Throughout the writings are historical botanical illustrations and Iselin's signature, Marimekko-like portraits of each specimen that reveal their vibrant colors--whether rosy, "olivaceous," or grass-green--and whimsical shapes. Iselin posits that we can learn not only about the seaweeds but also from them: their resilience, their resourcefulness, their poetry and magic.
Theatrum Botanicvm
Title | Theatrum Botanicvm PDF eBook |
Author | John Parkinson |
Publisher | London : Printed by Tho. Cotes |
Total Pages | 1802 |
Release | 1640 |
Genre | Botany |
ISBN |
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Title | What's Eating Gilbert Grape PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hedges |
Publisher | Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 2014-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0795343221 |
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . This distinctive first novel goes down like a chocolate milkshake but boasts the sharpness and finesse of a complex wine” (Publishers Weekly). Gilbert Grape is a twenty-four-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert’s father, his family never fully recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert’s mother is now morbidly obese and planted eternally in front of the TV; his younger sister has recently turned both boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there’s Arnie, Gilbert’s younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother’s main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut—until a mysterious new girl named Becky arrives in this small town. As his family gathers for Arnie’s eighteenth birthday, Gilbert finds himself at a crossroads . . . This “completely original” portrait of a family (The New York Times), “charged with sardonic intelligence” (The Washington Post Book World), was the basis for a film starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and stands as one of the most memorable novels of recent decades. “Sometimes funny, sometimes sad . . . and always engaging.” —The Atlantic “By the book’s exhilaratingly luminous ending . . . we have already been mesmerized.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A funny, touching, caring first novel whose characters are familiar and moving in spite of (or perhaps because of) their peculiarities.” —Booklist