Even the Least of These
Autor Anita Skeen De (artist) Laura B. DeLinden Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611864915
ISBN-10: 1611864917
Pagini: 95
Ilustrații: 25
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10: 1611864917
Pagini: 95
Ilustrații: 25
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Recenzii
"A poem restricted to ten lines demands concision, as well as precision. It also requires a narrowing of attention to what is right in front of us: tutelary encounters with chickens or toads, overheard conversations that become meaningful at once, a sudden memory that arises from childhood—moments in the everyday sensorium we often miss and, hence, neglect to cherish. “There was something there I needed to save,” as a friend says in the title poem. Even the Least of These is replete with poems to start the morning, slip into a card, or recite over dinner, each small enough to make a lovely dent in an ordinary day." —Melissa Kwasny, author of Pictograph and Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today
"Even the Least of These is full of motion. Anita Skeen’s poems and Laura DeLind’s illustrations buzz with activity drawn from the natural world, culled through all of the senses. The collection shows that even little overlooked things are chockablock with vibrancy, and life. Poem titles “On the Move,” “Walking Song,” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” evoke gesture and vitality, while DeLind’s illustrations echo and volley off Skeen’s words with high-contrast shapes, with curlicued lines swirling clockwise and counterclockwise, where clotheslines dance and letters tumble off ladders. The interplay between these two friends and creators takes us on an ever-expansive journey looking at the ordinary." —Mary McDonnell, visual artist
"Some people baked their way through the pandemic. Some hiked. Some Zoomed until their eyes got goggly. Anita Skeen wrote a ten-line poem every day and emailed it to her friend, artist Laura DeLind, who responded by creating linocut prints. Both used that slowed-down, locked-down time for meditation on the wonders of the world around them. The result is Even the Least of These, a gift of deep seeing, of dwelling in nature as part of nature. I love it. I think you will too." —George Ella Lyon, poet laureate of Kentucky 2015–2016, author of Back to the Light
"Even the Least of These is full of motion. Anita Skeen’s poems and Laura DeLind’s illustrations buzz with activity drawn from the natural world, culled through all of the senses. The collection shows that even little overlooked things are chockablock with vibrancy, and life. Poem titles “On the Move,” “Walking Song,” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” evoke gesture and vitality, while DeLind’s illustrations echo and volley off Skeen’s words with high-contrast shapes, with curlicued lines swirling clockwise and counterclockwise, where clotheslines dance and letters tumble off ladders. The interplay between these two friends and creators takes us on an ever-expansive journey looking at the ordinary." —Mary McDonnell, visual artist
"Some people baked their way through the pandemic. Some hiked. Some Zoomed until their eyes got goggly. Anita Skeen wrote a ten-line poem every day and emailed it to her friend, artist Laura DeLind, who responded by creating linocut prints. Both used that slowed-down, locked-down time for meditation on the wonders of the world around them. The result is Even the Least of These, a gift of deep seeing, of dwelling in nature as part of nature. I love it. I think you will too." —George Ella Lyon, poet laureate of Kentucky 2015–2016, author of Back to the Light
Notă biografică
Anita Skeen is professor emerita in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University where she was the founding director of the RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University and the series editor for Wheelbarrow Books. She is the author of six volumes of poetry.
Laura B. DeLind is retired from the Department of Anthropology and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She is the co-author of The Unauthorized Audubon.
Laura B. DeLind is retired from the Department of Anthropology and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She is the co-author of The Unauthorized Audubon.
Descriere
Even the Least of These presents the work of a poet and a printmaker responding to the small and often overlooked moments of our daily lives and reflecting upon the significance of experience and memory. The result is a thoughtful and often joyful collection of poetry and prints that celebrate an awareness of the world around us and reflect on past experiences, lessons learned (or not).