2013, ISBN: 9781236712769

University of Iowa Press, Iowa City: 2013. Softcover. Brand new book. In Blue Heron, Elizabeth Robinson unleashes her distinctive minimalism in elegy. Alert to what is partially glimpse… Plus…

University of Iowa Press, Iowa City: 2013. Softcover. Brand new book. In Blue Heron, Elizabeth Robinson unleashes her distinctive minimalism in elegy. Alert to what is partially glimpsed, piecemeal, and indirect, to the way a fragment of life can summon the transcendent, she offers a fierce lament for her father as his physical body, sometimes bird and sometimes man, hurls itself toward burial." - Joanna Klink "Rilke's 1923 Duino Elegies argues that the animal's existence is infinite, unbounded by thoughts about its condition or its mortality. But for the poet who would enter into imaginative sympathy with animal species today, it is as impossible to idealize the figure of "the animal" as it is to make any definitive claims about nonhuman modes of being. Turning this ethical impasse into an opportunity for refiguring the relations between human language and nonhuman others, Blue Heron shows us that "the perimeter around the invisible is a person." Elizabeth Robinson's exceptional new book puts the human capacity for abstraction to work at the boundaries where what's nonhuman escapes our understanding and only seems to go missing. Ever attuned to the paradox of using words to pursue their quarry into the unsayable, Robinson's spare and incomparably graceful lyrics turn language into a liminal space where 'the breathing creature / loves its other.' " ÑBRIAN TEARE "Elizabeth Robinson's Blue Heron performs a high-definition infrared thermographic study, sensing the subtle presence between living entities and what is dying into other forms. In a scintillating rush, nature and culture and the fine line of what it means to be human dissolve into matrices of physical presence itself, no longer cordoned off, sequestered or marked. The blue heron is a guide that kindles relationships with all vantage points. There is also the illusive monster who negotiates otherness and sameness: a gossamer reality that shape-shifts into newness as understanding develops. This is a great work of symbiosis." ÑBRENDA IIJIMA The poems in Blue Heron delineate a passage through grief and change. Here, personal loss is continuous with threats to other species and landscapes. In response, Robinson has uprooted the terrain of language, "what / bestows itself from / the almost-invisible / and its stain." If these uprootings are casualties of a poetics seeking to redress imbalance and "pollution," then they are also opportunities to rethink what can exist in the field of poetic language as "roots also quicken, bruise their plural pronouns, lose tune, / forsake terrain by moving through and on it." And so Blue Heron links poetic process with organic process, presence with the gap we know as hauntedness. The page is not only a resonant physical field, but also a site of dialogue between human and landscape, between lack and manifestation. If these poems constitute a poetics of loss, they are equally a movement toward a poetics of openness, risk, and renewed balance in which poetry shifts as "a form of weather, a form/of following, falling from the form/as it twists., University of Iowa Press, Iowa City: 2013, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 94 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: . . . C available for sextant work I do not think a location could be in el!Y more than about ten feet. I have been in Omaha for a month and a half, having been greatly delayed in getting here, due to the delay in the passing of the Sunday civil appropriation bill. This workhere is Telegraphic Longitude. It consists in getting the chronometer e-rror from the stars at-Omaha, which we use as a base station, and another observer doing the same at the new station. Then we compare ch-ronometer-times over the wire, a through wire being obtained from-the Western Union for a ce-rtain time at night. We have completed the determination of differences in longitude between Omaha and stations in Montana, North and South Dakota and shall continue on stations in Colorado and Wyoming. . As a rule we observe twenty-four stars in two sets, getting two times and thus giving the chronometer rate, which-though small is absolutely necessary. Three or four nights give a sufficient determination. -By sending signals in both directions we eliminate the time lost in going ov-er the wire. For our stations so far the-probable error of the mean results have been about 0. 01 seconds of-time. This-means about fifteen vfeet in distance. Bad weather has made-the work take twice as long as necessary and has given me considerable spare time to see the city, take in football games, etc. A little triangulation was necessa-ry to tie in the longitude station here as there is a possibility of the station. being lost on account of the regrading of the land. The western sta-tions are all connected by supplementa-ry triangulation with the main primary triangulation which begins at the Mexican border line on the 98th meridian and-runs to the Canadian border line at. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 328 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: . . . Co. is on Solomon River near the mouth of Butte Creek. The gravel at this place is from 4 to 8 feet thick. In the spring the ground is partly frozen, but no artificial thawing is necessary. The equipment of this dredge was recently changed from coal to oil burning engines, effecting a considerable saving. The Seward dredge is not working in the river channel proper but in the bench deposits, where it is necessary to thaw the ground in advance of the dredge. BLUFF REGION. Little work was in progress at Bluff in 1913. One man was working a bench deposit near the beach by pumping sea water. No water was turned into the Topkok ditch. COUNCIL REGION. The Council output was derived essentially from the dredges. Winter work was done at only one plant, which employed three men. In the summer 125 men were mining on 23 claims. Six dredges were in operation during the greater part of the summer. Three of these were on Ophir Creek, which continues to be the principal producer. The pioneer dredge of the district is the Blue Goose, which was installed in 1903. This dredge was recently overhauled and a 5-foot open-connected bucket line changed to a 3-foot close-connected line, resulting in an increased efficiency. The dredge of the Wild Goose Mining and Trading Co. , also on Ophir Creek, is the largest producer of the district. The other Ophir Creek boat is the flume dredge which for a time was operated on Melsing Creek. Another dredge was installed by the Flume Dredge Co. on Melsing Creek late in the season of 1913 and ran for about two months. The dredge of the Star Dredging Co. has been working on Mystery Creek 3 miles from the mouth of the creek and 4 miles northeast of Council City. The gravels are from 2 to 15 feet thick and overlie a clay false. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, From Here to Fame. Paperback. New. Paperback. 128 pages. Dimensions: 9.3in. x 6.4in. x 0.4in.Part One entered the subway graffiti movement in 1974 just after the foundation for piecing had been laid down. He began doing the bubble and mechanical styles of the era, and by 1975-6 he truly came into his own. From 1977 to 1980 few writers could compete with Part One and his TDS partners. These young men burned the subway lines from Brooklyn to the Bronx with their elaborately stylized letterforms and innovative color schemes. At the time Part One s aliases Fudge 357 and Worm 2 were seen on the trains in great abundance. Today, Part One continues to burn and is considered an original New York City style master. The ON THE RUN book, Part One The Death Squad, is one of great historical importance. Part One of The Death Squad Fame and his crew have remained somewhat under the radar in regards to media recognition, even though they are considered one of the most prolific and influential style crews in the history of graffiti. The fact that TDS was neglected is quite ironic considering the fact that some of the biggest names in writing were affiliated with it. 149th Street New York City Cyber Bench. This book sets the record straight giving Part One of TDS credit where credit is due. It is the first publication dealing exclusively with his impact on writing culture, with stories from the early days in 1974 until now, tracing his development as a writer and an artist over the years. With exclusive material and unpublished archives, including sketches, pieces, trains and bombings from the Part One and TDS vaults. Historical gems, finally given the treatment that they deserve. OTR s Part One The Death Squad, cements his rightful place in graffiti history, his story preserved for all to share. Like OTR s motto says, Know your history . Part One is still very active today first and foremost as a graffiti writer, but in other areas of art and illustration as well. It is interesting to see how his work has evolved since his train writing days. To get the full story behind this lesser known but no less significant legend be sure to check out the book. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., From Here to Fame, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 210 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.Excerpt: . . . possessions, . their oxen, their sheep, I carried off: 750 prisoners of the city Kurussa, . (prisoners) of the city of the Irmaites, 550 prisoners of the city Metuna, I carried off: 591 cities . of 16 districts of the land of a-imriu I destroyed like flood-mounds. 94 This is immediately followed by an account of the operations against Samsi, queen of Arabia, and the tribes connected with that over which she held sway. After this he states that he set Idi-biilu as governor over the land of Musru. All these passages, however, are exceedingly incomplete, as is also that referring to Samaria, which follows. The shorter account of the expeditions of Tiglath-pileser gives in this place lines of which the following is a translation- They overthrew Paqaa (Pekah), their king, and I set Ausia (Hosea) (upon the throne) over them. pg 355 Ten talents of gold, . talents of silver, . their (tribute), I received, and (brought) them (to the land of Assyria). The longer account, from which most of the above extracts have been made, may therefore be completed, with Rost, provisionally, as follows- (Pekah, all of whose) cities (I had captured) in my earlier campaigns, and had given over (as a prey, and whose spoi)l I had carried off, abandoned the city of Samerina (Samaria) alone. (Pekah), their king, (they overthrew, and like) a hurricane (I ravaged the land). As will be seen, the above agrees closely with the statement in 2 Kings xv. 30- And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the 20th year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. Mutilated details concerning other cities captured by Tiglath-pileser follow the above extract from his annals, after which the narrative continues- (Mitinti, of the land) of the Askelonites, (sinned) against (my) agreement, (and revolted against me). He saw (the overthrow of Ra)unnu (Rezon), and failure (of. . . 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