Walking With Ruskin (Signed First Edition)

CORDING, Robert

ISBN 10: 193388021X / ISBN 13: 9781933880211

Published by CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ, 2010

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. 93 pages. A paperback original collection of poems. A clean near fine copy in French style wrappers. Signed and warmly inscribed by Cording to fellow poet Marie Ponsot on the title page. Uncommon signed. Seller Inventory # 170037

Bibliographic Details

Title: Walking With Ruskin (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Soft cover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

In his poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” Of course, Blake’s “doors of perception” are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous 19th century art and social critic, seeing demanded a scientist’s respect for fact, but also a love for what was being seen. These poems ask us to attend, with devotion and care, to a world which will always remain a mystery, but a mystery in which love calls us to the things of this world where we may become most fully human.

About the Author:

Robert Cording teaches English and Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published five collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press Journal Award in 1987; What Binds Us to This World (Copper Beach Press, 1991); Heavy Grace (Alice James, 1991), Against Consolation (Cavankerry Press, 2002); Common Life (Cavankerry Press, 2006). He has received two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. In 1992, he was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeard in the Nation, Image, AGNI, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review, The New Yorker and many other magazines. He lives in Woodstock, Connecticut with his wife and three children.

ROBERT CORDING is the Barrett Professor of creative writing at Holy Cross College; he has published five collections of poems.