Author: William MatthewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
American Diaries
Author: William MatthewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Translations from European Sugar Journals
Author: Truman Garrett PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beets and beet sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013
Author: Lawrence FerlinghettiPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631490850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
In celebration of Ferlinghetti’s 100th birthday comes this “stunning portrait” of the intrepid life of “one of America’s best poets” (Huffington Post). Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco’s legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the Mind became a generational classic reveals yet another facet of his manifold talents, presenting here his travel journals, spanning over sixty years. Selected from a vast trove of mostly unpublished, handwritten notebooks, and edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson, Writing Across the Landscape becomes a transformative work of social, cultural, and literary history. Beginning with Ferlinghetti's account of serving as a commanding officer on a Navy sub-chaser during D-Day, Writing Across the Landscape dramatically traverses the latter half of the twentieth century. For those only familiar with his poetry, these pages present a Lawrence Ferlinghetti never before encountered, an elegant prose stylist and tireless political activist who was warning against the pernicious sins of our ever-expansive corporate culture long before such thoughts ever seeped into mainstream consciousness. Yet first and foremost we see an inquisitive wanderer whose firsthand accounts of people and places are filled with pungent descriptions that animate the landscapes and cultures he encounters. Evoking each journey with a mixture of travelogue and poetry as well as his own hand-drawn sketches, Ferlinghetti adopts the role of an American bard, providing panoramic views of the Cuban Revolution in Havana, 1960, and a trip through Haiti, where voodoo and Catholicism clash in cathedrals "filled with ulcerous children's feet running from Baron Hunger." Reminding us that poverty is not only to be found abroad, Ferlinghetti narrates a Steinbeck-like trip through California's Salton Sea, a sad yet exquisitely melodic odyssey from motel to motel, experiencing the life "between cocktails, between filling stations, between buses, trains, towns, restaurants, movies, highways leading over horizons to another Rest Stop…Sad hope of all their journeys to Nowhere and back in dark Eternity." Particularly memorable is his journey across the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1957, which turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which he, lacking a proper visa, is removed from a Japan-bound freighter and forced back across the Russian steppe to Moscow, encountering a countryside more Tolstoy than Khrushchev, while nearly dying in the process. Readers are also treated to glimpses of Ezra Pound, "looking like an old Chinese sage," whom Ferlinghetti espies in Italy, as well as fellow Beat legends Allen Ginsberg and a dyspeptic William S. Burroughs, immured with his cats in a grotto-like apartment in London. Embedded with facsimile manuscript pages and an array of poems, many never before published, Writing Across the Landscape revives an era when political activism coursed through the land and refashions Lawrence Ferlinghetti, not only as a seminal poet but as an historic and singular American voice.
Transit Journal
Author: Monthly Journal
Author: Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and JoinersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Design of the University
Author: Heinz-Dieter MeyerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317623282
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
What is the reason for the American university’s global preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the development of the German university, from which it took so much, stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key to the American university’s success is its institutional design of self-government. Where other university systems are dependent on the patronage of state, church, or market, the American university is the first to achieve true autonomy, which it attained through an intricate system of engagements with societal actors and institutions that simultaneously act as amplifiers of its impact and as checks on the university’s ever-present corrosive tendencies. Built on a searching analysis of the design thinking of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Adam Smith and closely tracing the learning process by which Americans adapted the German model, The Design of the University dismisses efforts to copy superficial features of the American university in order to achieve world-class rank. Calling attention to the design details of the university and the particulars of its institutional environment, this volume identifies the practices and choices that produced the gold standard for today’s world class higher education.
Monthly Journal
Author: Amalgamated Society of WoodworkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Foundry Trade Journal
Author: Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: Trip Report for European Travel
Author: James M. SymonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
From March 26-April 6, 1973, Mr. Symons, on behalf of the National Environmental Research Center, visited four agencies in France, Germany and the Netherlands to exchange information on water treatment techniques. Upon his return he prepared this report detailing his trip and sent it to Fitzhugh Green, Associate Administrator, International Activities.