Author: Glyn Maxwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618773657
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Glyn Maxwell's last book of poems, The Nerve, was declared "one of the most enjoyable books of the year" by the New York Times Book Review. In The Sugar Mile, Maxwell returns to the extended verse narrative he so brilliantly employed in Time's Fool, to juxtapose two cities on the brink of irrevocable change.The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate. "What a mess the young man's made . . . with his poetry pen . . . Warm the beer, Raul, there's an English gent/on duty." It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing, and his insistent story brings his lost neighbors back to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York's wonders -- as we begin to understand that the city soon will face its own catastrophic moment in history.As Stone's memories grow more hallucinatory and the bar in New York ends another day, the chance encounter of two strangers takes on the inevitability of fate.
The Sugar Mile
Author: Glyn Maxwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618773657
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Glyn Maxwell's last book of poems, The Nerve, was declared "one of the most enjoyable books of the year" by the New York Times Book Review. In The Sugar Mile, Maxwell returns to the extended verse narrative he so brilliantly employed in Time's Fool, to juxtapose two cities on the brink of irrevocable change.The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate. "What a mess the young man's made . . . with his poetry pen . . . Warm the beer, Raul, there's an English gent/on duty." It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing, and his insistent story brings his lost neighbors back to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York's wonders -- as we begin to understand that the city soon will face its own catastrophic moment in history.As Stone's memories grow more hallucinatory and the bar in New York ends another day, the chance encounter of two strangers takes on the inevitability of fate.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618773657
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Glyn Maxwell's last book of poems, The Nerve, was declared "one of the most enjoyable books of the year" by the New York Times Book Review. In The Sugar Mile, Maxwell returns to the extended verse narrative he so brilliantly employed in Time's Fool, to juxtapose two cities on the brink of irrevocable change.The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate. "What a mess the young man's made . . . with his poetry pen . . . Warm the beer, Raul, there's an English gent/on duty." It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing, and his insistent story brings his lost neighbors back to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York's wonders -- as we begin to understand that the city soon will face its own catastrophic moment in history.As Stone's memories grow more hallucinatory and the bar in New York ends another day, the chance encounter of two strangers takes on the inevitability of fate.
Sugar Water
Author: Carol Wilcox
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824864506
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the 20th century, and its influence was felt across a broad spectrum: economics, politics, the environment, and society. This success was made possible, in part, through the liberal use of Hawaii's natural resources. Chief among these was water, which was needed in enormous quantities to grow and process sugarcane. Between 1856 and 1920, sugar planters built miles of ditches, diverting water from almost every watershed in Hawaii. "Ditch" is a humble term for these great waterways. By 1920, ditches, tunnels, and flumes were diverting over 800 million gallons a day from streams and mountains to the canefields and their mills. Sugar Water chronicles the building of Hawaii's ditches, the men who conceived, engineered, and constructed them, and the sugar plantations and water companies that ran them. It explains how traditional Hawaiian water rights and practices were affected by Western ways and how sugar economics transformed Hawaii from an insular, agrarian, and debt-ridden society into one of the most cosmopolitan and prosperous in the Pacific.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824864506
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the 20th century, and its influence was felt across a broad spectrum: economics, politics, the environment, and society. This success was made possible, in part, through the liberal use of Hawaii's natural resources. Chief among these was water, which was needed in enormous quantities to grow and process sugarcane. Between 1856 and 1920, sugar planters built miles of ditches, diverting water from almost every watershed in Hawaii. "Ditch" is a humble term for these great waterways. By 1920, ditches, tunnels, and flumes were diverting over 800 million gallons a day from streams and mountains to the canefields and their mills. Sugar Water chronicles the building of Hawaii's ditches, the men who conceived, engineered, and constructed them, and the sugar plantations and water companies that ran them. It explains how traditional Hawaiian water rights and practices were affected by Western ways and how sugar economics transformed Hawaii from an insular, agrarian, and debt-ridden society into one of the most cosmopolitan and prosperous in the Pacific.
Report on the Culture of the Sugar Beet and the Manufacture of Sugar Therefrom in France and the United States
Author: William McMurtrie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beet sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beet sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Sailing Directions (enroute).
Lumbering in the Sugar and Yellow Pine Region of California
Author: Swift Berry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Sugar Pine Railway
Author: Pamela A. Conners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Extension of the Sugar Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The Sugar Industry of the Japanese Mandated Islands
Author: United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caroline Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caroline Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Public Utilities Reports
Author: Henry Clifford Spurr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Author: Indiana Academy of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description