Another America: Otra America - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187806715X ISBN 13: 9781878067159

Publisher: Seal Pr, 1992

Synopsis

@2ndlead = Nature photography at its most mind boggling and immaculate; pure artistry that will leave you spellbound @2ndcola = Expensive, but amazing value if you feel the weight of the book! @2ndcola = Chronicles the colourful, often mystical quality of ancient trees, rock formations, cave paintings, seascapes, ruins and botany of the North American continent @2ndcola = Will remind readers of Andy Galdsworthy's natural art work @BREAK = ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: @Body text = David Muench, one of America's most outstanding photographers, presents a vision of the pre-Colombian American wilderness, showing how the natural world has played a significant role in the shaping of the national character. Eight themed chapters of colourful, mystical, and sometimes surreal images portray the ancient soul of nature as it is found throughout America: a sunburst hitting the clouds above a desert ruin, a steaming volcanic crater surrounded with snow, moonlight reflected in icy blue northern waters, a mountain range struck by vibrant lightning bolts. Anthropologist Brian Fagan puts Muench's work in context, while Patrick O'Dowd and Karen Zinsheimer provide an in-depth interview with the phot

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish

From Publishers Weekly

The citizens of Kingsolver's ( The Bean Trees ) other America are demonstrators whose silent vigil on the eve of Desert Storm defies the "opera of assent" to war. They are Nicaraguan peasants whose arrival at voting polls is "like a pulse," though they risk "any foreign bullet." In this first volume of poetry Kingsolver identifies with the other America's struggles so powerfully that she has her poems translated into its mother tongue--Spanish. This identification sometimes makes for strong, moving poetry. The reader shares the life sentence of emotional entrapment and betrayal that a rape victim endures when her trust, like her "kitchen knives / and other things of mine . . . have been used against me." Frequently, however, Kingsolver's representations are far less compelling. "For Sacco and Vanzetti" fails to move beyond a tearful plaint for the unjustly executed immigrants. Stylistically, too, Kingsolver is uneven, offering intriguingly detailed descriptions of a sleeper's R.E.M.s--"Your eyes swim quick strokes / in sealed wet caves"--and abstract uses of abstract terms, wishing for a day "when justice / is not a word / because it is air and we breathe it."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 187806715X
• ISBN 13: 9781878067159
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 103