The Abridged History of Rainfall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Abridged History of Rainfall write by Jay Hopler. This book was released on 2016-11-15. The Abridged History of Rainfall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid subtropics, the mountains of the American West, the streets of Rome, and the Umbrian countryside. Vivid, dynamic, unrestrained: The Abridged History of Rainfall is a festival of glowing saints and fighting cocks, of firebombs and birdsong.
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rain: A Natural and Cultural History write by . This book was released on . Rain: A Natural and Cultural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rain
Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rain write by Cynthia Barnett. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Still Life
Still Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Life write by Jay Hopler. This book was released on 2024-03-05. Still Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Pulitzer Prize finalist. Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler (1970-2022)--author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall--got to work. The result of that labor is Still Life, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch. This work is no elegy; it's a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. It's a violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand.
Danzirly
Danzirly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Danzirly write by Gloria Muñoz. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Danzirly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Danzirly is a stunning bilingual poetry collection that considers multigenerational Latinx identities in the rapidly changing United States. Winner of the Academy of American Poets' Ambroggio Prize, Gloria Muñoz's collection is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America.
