Jonah Raskin

Broschiertes Buch

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY The Wilderness of American Literature

Beschreibung

ABOUT THE BOOK Shortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called "The library a wilderness of books." He also noted that while Americans were "clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are accumulating a forest of books in our rear, as wild and unexplored as any of nature's primitive wildernesses." In A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature, Jonah Raskin takes a long close look at the forest of books that poets, novelists and essayists mapped and explored before and after Thoreau. The first work of cultural criticism to look back at writing in the United States from the perspective of the contemporary environmental crisis, Raskin offers insights for students, teachers and lovers of literature as well as for backpackers and hikers who have trekked across untrammeled forests, deserts and mountains. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonah Raskin has taught American literature at Sonoma State University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and as a Fulbright professor at the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent in Belgium. The author of fifteen books, he earned his B.A. at Columbia College in New York, his M.A. at Columbia University and his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, Manchester, England. He lives in northern California and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The L.A. Times, The Nation, The Redwood Coast Review and Catamaran.

Autor

Jonah Raskin is the author of six poetry chapbooks published by Running Wolf Press, Jaxon's Press and the Alexander Book Company. The author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, he has written about the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot. Regent Press published his literary and cultural study, A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature, a sequel of sorts to The Mythology of Imperialism. An ex-New Yorker, Raskin lived and worked for 40 years in Sonoma County, taught literature and media at Sonoma State University and performed his poetry with jazz musicians, Steve Shain and Steve della Maggiora, in Santa Rosa, Graton, Healdsburg, Cotati, Petaluma and the town of Sonoma. For a decade, he worked at Don Emblen's Clam Shell Press, printing his own broadsides and working with artist, Bobette Barnes. Since 2021, he has made his home at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, where he reads at Black Bird Books and Sealevel, both on Irving Street. He belongs to the Write If Your Dare writing group and co-edits the magazine, Caveat Lector. He has written about The City's poet laureates, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima and Tongo Eisen-Martin, and has published interviews with those Beat poets, Michael McClure, Joanna McClure and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Regent Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781587902789
• ISBN-10: 1587902788
• Artikelnr.: 41640344