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Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)
Eric Gansworth
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Description for Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)
Hardcover. Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heartbeat, this work features poems that alternate between contraction and expansion. It explores the act of enduring: physically, historically, and culturally. With equal measures of humor, wisdom, polgnancy, and beauty, it mines a variety of individual and collective loss and recovery. Series: Iroquois & Their Neighbors S. Num Pages: 144 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heartbeat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring: physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of a marginalized culture struggling to maintain tradition within a much larger dominant culture.With equal measures of humor, wisdom, polgnancy, and beauty, Gansworth's poems mine the infinite varieties of individual and collective loss and recovery. Seventeen paintings complement his poetry, creating a dialogue between word and image steeped in the tradition of the Haudenosaunee's mythic world. ""A Half-Life of ... Read more
Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heartbeat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring: physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of a marginalized culture struggling to maintain tradition within a much larger dominant culture.With equal measures of humor, wisdom, polgnancy, and beauty, Gansworth's poems mine the infinite varieties of individual and collective loss and recovery. Seventeen paintings complement his poetry, creating a dialogue between word and image steeped in the tradition of the Haudenosaunee's mythic world. ""A Half-Life of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Iroquois & Their Neighbors S.
Number of Pages
135
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609001
SKU
V9780815609001
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About Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth is professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he is the author of three novels, Mending Skins (PEN Oakland Award), Indian Summers, and Smoke Dancing; a book of poems, Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon, and a cross-genre volume, Breathing the Monster Alive.
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