2000, ISBN: 9781585671564

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Paperback. New. In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent… Mehr…

Paperback. New. In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton, who later founded Merton College, Oxford, with the result that documents covering 750 years of village history are lodged at the college. Building on this unique archive, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, with a village-wide archeological dig, with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia, the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation. Better than any historian for decades, [in In Search of England ] Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them . ( TLS ). Michael Wood was born and educated in Manchester. He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate. He has made a number of internationally successful tv series, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great , and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one bestsellers. His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history, In Search of England , was published by Penguin in 1999., Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket Illustration By Bill Traylor, 'Three Figures on a Red and Blue Houseboat'. xii, 164pp. Black quarter cloth, brown fiber paper boards, publisher's debossed emblem front cover, white spine lettering. Dust jacket price 24.95. Small remainder dot bottom edge. As new, unread condition. 'At times evoking the style of Craig Raine and Paul Muldoon, this novel-in-verse is a stunning achievement with epic reach, by a masterful poet and storyteller. Using the intimate rhyme scheme of Byron's great picaresque Don Juan, and the narrative devices of Pushkin's enduring Eugene Onegin, D'Aguiar creates poetry dazzling in its inventiveness and wonder. Moving from the Civil War to the present day, Bloodlines follows the lives of five characters, each trying to escape the bonds of slavery. Therer are Tom and Stella, runaway slaves who are now part of the Underground Railroad; Faith, a black slave; her white lover Christy; and their son - the narrator - who knows neither of his parents because by the time he is born Faith has been sold back into slavery and dies in childbirth, and Christy has been indentured as a boxer in a traveling fair. Cursed by the thwarted love of his parents, the narrator is condemned to bear witness until the races become equal. He speaks to us of his quest for freedom.' - front dust jacket flap."D'Aguiar (Feeding the Ghosts; The Longest Memory) uses the form of an epic poem to eloquently convey two generations of oppression and sacrifice. The 19th-century narrator, who remains nameless, employs modern language and metaphors to tell his story, beginning with his conception and continuing through the tragic separation of his parents: his mother, a slave, and his father, a plantation owner's son. But this is sophisticated material: what begins as a rape evolves into a romance ("This is the nature of sweet transgression:/ after the fact bodies become solicitous;/ black and white locked in illegal passion"), and the two flee the plantation together. They are captured and humiliated by white men she is raped repeatedly, sold and taken west; he is bound and defiled. Throughout the 10 sections of the poem, the narrator's voice intermingles with the mournful songs of his 17-year-old mother, Faith, who dies in childbirth, and his father, Christy, who becomes a traveling fighter after Faith's return to slavery. Traditional poetic structures frame the vibrant, contemporary language ("Her love did more damage to her body/ than all the lyrics in all the pop songs slammed/ together have done to a sentimental boy/ or girl in suburbia on a diet of MTV jams") and powerful images of loneliness ("I am stripped bare by the light, bare and/ lonely, my bones wrung clean, the clean/ bones ground to dust, scattered in the four winds"). This saga of a man shunned by society will long echo in readers' minds." - Publishers Weekly., The Overlook Press, 2000<

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At times evoking the style of Craig Raine and Paul Muldoon, this novel-in-verse is a stunning achievement with epic reach, by a masterful poet and storyteller. Using the intimate rhyme sc… Mehr…

At times evoking the style of Craig Raine and Paul Muldoon, this novel-in-verse is a stunning achievement with epic reach, by a masterful poet and storyteller. Using the intimate rhyme scheme of Byron’s great picaresque Don Juan, and the narrative devices of Pushkin’s enduring Eugene Onegin, D’Aguiar creates poetry dazzling in its inventiveness and wonder. Moving from the Civil War to the present day, Bloodlines follows the lives of five characters, each trying to escape the bonds of slavery. Therer are Tom and Stella, runaway slaves who are now part of the Underground Railroad; Faith, a black slave; her white lover Christy; and their son – the narrator – who knows neither of his parents because by the time he is born Faith has been sold back into slavery and dies in childbirth, and Christy has been indentured as a boxer in a traveling fair. Cursed by the thwarted love of his parents, the narrator is condemned to bear witness until the races become equal. He speaks to us of his quest for freedom. contemporary,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction,poetry Poetry, Overlook Books<

ISBN: 9781585671564

Overlook Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Gently used may contain ex-library markings, possibly has some light highlighting, textual notations, and or underlining. Text is still easily readable.… Mehr…

Overlook Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Gently used may contain ex-library markings, possibly has some light highlighting, textual notations, and or underlining. Text is still easily readable., Overlook Books<

ISBN: 9781585671564

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