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Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs
Margaret Randall
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Description for Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs
Paperback. Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui - more commonly known as Easter Island - this collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPE; AJC; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 249.
Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui - more commonly known as Easter Island - this extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Illustrating the unique culture and ongoing struggle to survive against dramatic odds, this volume dramatically depicts the basic desires, misgivings, and challenges that human beings have long faced, regardless of time and place.
Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui - more commonly known as Easter Island - this extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Illustrating the unique culture and ongoing struggle to survive against dramatic odds, this volume dramatically depicts the basic desires, misgivings, and challenges that human beings have long faced, regardless of time and place.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
San Antonio, TX, United States
ISBN
9780916727611
SKU
V9780916727611
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Ref
99-50
About Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall is a poet, a photographer, and a social activist. She is the author of more than 80 books, including Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections, Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle, and Stones Witness and the first recipient of PEN New Mexico's Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. She lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs
“A major accomplishment from one of America’s most radical poet-citizens . . . Randall’s own photographs which thread the collection are powerful and stunning reclamations as well. Brava!” —Anne Waldman, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University “Breathtaking . . . a kinetic, truly complex work of art.” —Jerome Rothenberg, author, Traditions of the Sacred “Mystery, resistance, ... Read more