Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose
Author | : John Stone |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0807140406 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780807140406 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
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Author | : John Stone |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0807140406 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780807140406 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Author | : John Stone |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1998-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0807123277 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780807123270 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Author | : Kimberly Casey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2021-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 1736138626 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781736138625 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Where the Water Begins refers to the origin, the root, the remembering of the incident itself while understanding the fluidity of memory. Where the water begins asks where we started, where we first learned about loss, where we inherited our grieving processes from, where our forefathers and foremothers learned from, and what we may unconsciously carry in the currents of our blood. Who were you before this troubling event? What within the core of you changed? If you could go back to the root, would you? Or, is your memory of your past self also inaccurate, fluid, making you homesick for a time that never exists, for a you that never was? I have known water to be a mysterious thing-full of peace or death, life or danger. In Where the Water Begins, Kimberly Casey enters, deliberately and with unquestionable poetic skill, into that uncertainty, that life-giving and taking body. These poems are delicate in their sight and sound, and they hold multitudes of pain, memory, and the way in which the self can always find itself, even in the wash of waves. It is an incredible book, one which takes the reader to her own ocean's bottom and up toward the air which waits above the water's edge. It is a prayer of a book, it is a wrestling which ends in release. Ashley M. Jones, author of REPARATIONS NOW! Bearing witness to generational trauma and survival, Kimberly Casey's debut collection asks, "What in our blood begs us to drown ourselves?" With tenderness and honesty, these poems reveal our most human scars - those of the flesh and those of the spirit, the accidental and self-inflicted. When you discover part of yourself reflected in Where the Water Begins, honor that wavering image, "[p]raise it for its resilience. Kiss [its] palms." Emari DiGiorgio, author of Girl Torpedo In this aptly titled collection, a body of griefs comes to life slowly, slowly, unfurling throughout the pages as quietly as it can, taking the reader by surprise. Here, is a body filled with water, a body filled with scars, a body filled with water-memories, a body filled with deaths it keeps churning and churning upon itself, as if these remembrances will keep the lives lost, and itself, breathing, breathing. There is strength in such brokenness, it seems to say, and the poet does a stunning job of rebuilding it brick by brick, bone by bone, a tender care weaved throughout, as if to say, there is no salvation here, but there is home. And home is riddled with new griefs. Whether the poems are talking about familial relations, or pulling memories out of their graves, or counting the deaths of loved ones, they beckon us with difficult questions; through their tenderness, we are enshrouded with care too, and, suddenly, we find ourselves unspooling too - with this poet, we are reminded that what was once broken, can be mended, slowly, slowly. This is indeed a stunning, stunning collection. Mahtem Shiferraw, author of Your Body is War
Author | : John Stone |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0807123269 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780807123263 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Author | : Rudolph A. Rosen |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-11-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781623492274 |
ISBN-13 | : 1623492270 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author | : Pat Conroy |
Publisher | : Dial Press Trade Paperback |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2002-03-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780553381573 |
ISBN-13 | : 0553381571 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
A “miraculous” (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence unless, somehow, they can learn a new way. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher—until one man gives a year of his life to the island and its people. Praise for The Water Is Wide “Miraculous . . . an experience of joy.”—Newsweek “A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail . . . and you will learn to love the man.”—Charleston News and Courier “A hell of a good story.”—The New York Times “Few novelists write as well, and none as beautifully.”—Lexington Herald-Leader “[Pat] Conroy cuts through his experiences with a sharp edge of irony. . . . He brings emotion, writing talent and anger to his story.”—Baltimore Sun
Author | : Linda Sue Park |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780547251271 |
ISBN-13 | : 0547251270 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Author | : Henry Barnard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1870 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105042986138 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Author | : Robert Jerome Glennon |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781597266390 |
ISBN-13 | : 1597266396 |
Rating | : 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year, Unquenchable reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry. The looming catastrophe remains hidden as government diverts supplies from one area to another to keep water flowing from the tap. But sooner rather than later, the shell game has to end. And when it does, shortages will threaten not only the environment, but every aspect of American life: we face shuttered power plants and jobless workers, decimated fi sheries and contaminated drinking water. We can’t engineer our way out of the problem, either with traditional fixes or zany schemes to tow icebergs from Alaska. In fact, new demands for water, particularly the enormous supply needed for ethanol and energy production, will only worsen the crisis. America must make hard choices—and Glennon’s answers are fittingly provocative. He proposes market-based solutions that value water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right. One truth runs throughout Unquenchable: only when we recognize water’s worth will we begin to conserve it.
Author | : William Conant Church |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 1870 |
ISBN-10 | : CORNELL:31924080782174 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |