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Title: Writing on Air
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262182300
ISBN 13: 9780262182300
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.523 pounds

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For centuries, humans have tried to master air. Sea captains rein it in with their sails, and pilots cut through it with their wings. We have machines to pump air into our lungs and computers to anticipate the movement of the winds. Air pervades everything we do and gives us life, yet it is impossible to capture. We can only evoke it through images, impressions, and feelings. This book offers a collage of such evocations expressed through prose, poetry, photography, and drawings.From aerial plankton to Navajo wind gods, from joyful singing to painful emphysema, from gentle breezes to violent storms, Writing on Air creates a fresh way of thinking about the role of air in our everyday lives. Included in the book are prose pieces by poet Hayden Carruth, paulo da costa, Kristjana Gunnars, filmmaker Werner Herzog, Howard Mansfield, Sarah Menin, and C. L. Rawlins; an excerpt from a play by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann on the discovery of oxygen; poems by Lori Anderson, Tonu �nnepalu, Andrew Schelling, and Virgil Su�rez; and art and photography by Manuel Acevedo, Stuart Allen, Marsha Cottrell, Susan Derges, the Korwa tribe of the Indian hills, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Tuula N�rhinen, and the airborne dancers of Project Bandaloop.

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Wandee J. Pryor is former Managing Editor of Terra Nova projects at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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