A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing (Signed First Edition)

AUGUSTINE, Jane

ISBN 10: 0979241650 / ISBN 13: 9780979241659

Published by Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2008

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. 118 pages. A collection of poems. A fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Augustine on the title page and additionally signed and inscribed by her on the half title page to fellow poet Marie Ponsot in the year of publication.

Seller Inventory # 169771

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979241650
• ISBN 13: 9780979241659
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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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.