I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature

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Trinity University Press, 25/08/2009 - 256 páginas
Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace of self-pity, she contemplates the bitter ironies of being unable to walk, what it’s like to experience eros as a sick person, how to lower one’s expectations for a wilderness experience, and how to deal with the vagaries of a disease that has no predictable trajectory. Masterfully written, the essays resonate with lovers of literature and nature, and with anyone who has dealt with disadvantages of the body or the hard-luck limitations of ordinary life.
 

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Definition of Terms
24
Job versus Prometheus
46
A Cripple in the Wilderness
69
Fear of the Market
86
Bats
102
Brief History of My Thumb
115
Sick Fuck
133
TwoMan Boat
148
On Solitude
177
Sources
209
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Palavras e frases frequentes

Angus animal asked band-tailed pigeon Bardo Bardo Thodol bat guy beauty Becky become bird body body’s brain called can’t climb colors comes Costa del Bum creature dead death definitive tape Dickinson disease Dorianne Laux dreaming evil eagle Emily Dickinson eyes famous feel fish friends gift girl give glacier Glaucous-winged Gull gulls head hear Heraclitus human I’ve inside Kennedy Creek kind knowledge game lake legs living look Louise Glück male Marianne Moore means mind Mount Rainier mountain movie nature never once one’s pain Paradise glacier poem poet poetry Prometheus ravine river road salmon seems skin solitude someone sometimes song sound species story tell There’s thing thought tion tragedy trail trees turn W. N. P. Barbellion walk wear what’s wheelchair who’s wild wilderness woman women word write

Acerca do autor (2009)

Lucia Perillo is the author of four books of poetry: Dangerous Life (Northeastern University Press, 1989), which won the Norma Farber Award for best first book; The Body Mutinies (Purdue University Press, 1996), which received the PEN Revson Foundation Fellowship and the Kate Tufts Poetry Award; The Oldest Map with the Name America (Random House, 1999); and, most recently, Luck Is Luck (Random House, 2005), which won the Kingsley Tufts Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Perillo’s poetry, essays, and short fiction have appeared in the Paris Review, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and other magazines, and have been included in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart anthologies. She received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2000. She has taught at Syracuse University, Saint Martin’s University, and Southern Illinois University. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloI've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AutorLucia Perillo
Ediçãoreimpressão
EditoraTrinity University Press, 2009
ISBN1595340580, 9781595340580
Número de páginas256 páginas
  
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