A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing: Poems

Augustine, Jane

ISBN 10: 0979241650 / ISBN 13: 9780979241659

Published by Marsh Hawk Press, 2008

About this Item

Signed, dated, and inscribed by the poet to a named individual on the half title page, and signed again on the title page without inscription. Clean and bright, without owner's marks; binding is square and tight; one tiny chip at the top right rear, otherwise as new.; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing: Poems
• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979241650
• ISBN 13: 9780979241659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Poetry
  • Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Poetry. On a journey through mountains both actual and symbolic, a woman meditates on selfhood, family interactions, yearning, pain, and death in the midst of the ongoing beauty of the finite world. "A book of a woman's life-journey written with the intensities and intimacies of a haunted mindfulness, this allegorical trek seeks to name the essential amid the muliplying circumstances of selfhood, family intersections, pain, yearning and finite time. A poignant book of all the places and emotions that 'leaving we will never leave.'"--Rachel Blau Duplessis.

About the Author

Jane Augustine is both a poet and scholar of women in modernism with three previous books of poetry, Night Lights (2004) and Arbor Vitae (2002), both from Marsh Hawk Press, and Transitory from Spuyten Duyvil (2002). Twice a winner of Fellowships in Poetry from the New York State Council on the Arts, she has poems in several anthologies, most recently in Joyful Noise: an Anthology of American Buddhist Poetry (Autumn House, 2007). She has published numerous essays on H.D., Lorine Niedecker, Mina Loy and other modern women writers. Her short story, "Secretive," has also been anthologized and used in women's studies courses. She is the editor of The Gift by H.D. The Complete Text (UP Florida, 1998) and has held the H.D. Fellowship in American Literature at Beinecke Library, Yale. Her essay on Mahayana Buddhism and French philosophy appears in Buddhisms and Deconstructions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) She has taught at Pratt Institute, New York University, The New School and Naropa University in Boulder. She lives in New York City and Westcliffe, Colorado.