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Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer (Arkansas Poetry Award)
Carole Simmons Oles
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Description for Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer (Arkansas Poetry Award)
Paperback. A modern poetry biography, based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). It reveals the essential kinship between two women artists. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). After an exceptional apprenticeship in Rome, Hosmer opened a studio there where she was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and the Brownings. Though some of her work survives today, much of it has disappeared. Oles rediscovers Hosmer's life in ""Waking Stone"". This is a dialogue, an exploration of what Oles calls their ""parallel universes."" In beautiful and affecting lyric and narrative poems, some in Hosmer's voice, some in her own, Oles bends time and circumstances to reveal ... Read more
From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). After an exceptional apprenticeship in Rome, Hosmer opened a studio there where she was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and the Brownings. Though some of her work survives today, much of it has disappeared. Oles rediscovers Hosmer's life in ""Waking Stone"". This is a dialogue, an exploration of what Oles calls their ""parallel universes."" In beautiful and affecting lyric and narrative poems, some in Hosmer's voice, some in her own, Oles bends time and circumstances to reveal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288257
SKU
V9781557288257
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Ref
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About Carole Simmons Oles
Carole Simmons Oles is a professor of English at California State University at Chico. She is the author of a number of books, including Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell, Stunts, and Sympathetic Systems. Among her honors are a Poetry Society of America Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and four Prairie Schooner Awards.
Reviews for Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer (Arkansas Poetry Award)
How often is a book of poems simultaneously inspiring, informative, fun, solid as marble, sensuous as flesh, tough-minded and downright beautiful? Waking Stone is all those things. . . . When I started, I couldn't stop—the force of these poems blew me away." —Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven "In this astounding and flawlessly structured book Oles has entered ... Read more