Foto 1 di 1
Foto 1 di 1
Chameleon Hours, Paperback by Partridge, Elise, Brand New, Free shipping in t...
US $23,91
CircaEUR 21,40
Condizione:
Nuovo
Libro nuovo, intatto e non letto, in perfette condizioni, senza pagine mancanti o danneggiate. Per maggiori dettagli, consulta l'inserzione del venditore.
3 disponibili
Spedizione:
Gratis Economy Shipping.
Oggetto che si trova a: Jessup, Maryland, Stati Uniti
Consegna:
Consegna prevista tra il gio 10 ott e il gio 17 ott a 43230
Restituzioni:
Restituzioni entro 14 giorni. Le spese di spedizione del reso sono a carico dell'acquirente.
Pagamenti:
Fai shopping in tutta sicurezza
Il venditore si assume la piena responsabilità della messa in vendita dell'oggetto.
Numero oggetto eBay:364780293847
Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9780226647920
- Book Title
- Chameleon Hours
- Book Series
- Phoenix Poets Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Topic
- General, Poetry
- Item Weight
- 7.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226647927
ISBN-13
9780226647920
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62282809
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chameleon Hours
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General, Poetry
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book Series
Phoenix Poets Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.3 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-033072
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Reading Chameleon Hours , I find myself marveling at the luck of each heron, mosquito, field of Queen Anne's Lace, each person, place, thing or circumstance in this beautiful book, to have Elise Partridge's exquisite and precise attention. And how lucky we are to get to listen in as she offers each of them her flawless ear; the book is full of understated sonic gems like 'a kickball straight into pink lilac.' In 'Chemo Side Effects: Memory,' after describing 'groping in the thicket' for 'the word I want . . . scrabbling like a squirrel on the oak's far side,' she tells us 'I could always pull the gift / from the lucky-dip barrel; scoop the right jewel / from my dragon's trove. . . .' We of course already know this. It's evident in every one of these poems.", Elise Partridge is a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line presents a new, glinting angle of thought. Whether she's contemplating relics of World War II, or a mosquito struggling in a spider web like 'a fast-forward Rockette,' or shirts spinning in a dryer, their arms flailing, Partridge's coolly surprising intelligence rediscovers the worlds she remakes in words. These poems-good, tangy and chunky on the tongue-somehow reflect life's plenitude while maintaining their own spareness and balance. The result is an art of eerie compassion and an almost hyper-realist perception of the small, like the snail seen rippling and gliding its way across a paved road: 'Bow sprit-antennae plunge, rise:/ safety's ten lifetimes ahead.', "Elise Partridge is a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line presents a new, glinting angle of thought. Whether she's contemplating relics of World War II, or a mosquito struggling in a spider web like 'a fast-forward Rockette,' or shirts spinning in a dryer, their arms flailing, Partridge's coolly surprising intelligence rediscovers the worlds she remakes in words. These poems-good, tangy and chunky on the tongue-somehow reflect life's plenitude while maintaining their own spareness and balance. The result is an art of eerie compassion and an almost hyper-realist perception of the small, like the snail seen rippling and gliding its way across a paved road: 'Bow sprit-antennae plunge, rise:/ safety's ten lifetimes ahead.'"-Rosanna Warren , Partridge's impressive poems pursue a careful thinker's yearning for abandon, a loyal friend and partner's wish for change. Attentive to fact, to what she sees and knows, Partridge nonetheless makes space for what is wild, outside and within us-for the fears and the blanks of chemotherapy, for sharp variations within (and without) frames of metre and rhyme, and for the welcome consistencies of married love. She has learned detail-work, and patience, from Elizabeth Bishop, but she has made other virtues her own: riffs on familiar phrases open startling vistas and even her love poems get attractively practical. Hers is a welcome invitation: let's listen in., "Reading Chameleon Hours , I find myself marveling at the luck of each heron, mosquito, field of Queen Anne's Lace, each person, place, thing or circumstance in this beautiful book, to have Elise Partridge's exquisite and precise attention. And how lucky we are to get to listen in as she offers each of them her flawless ear; the book is full of understated sonic gems like 'a kickball straight into pink lilac.' In 'Chemo Side Effects: Memory,' after describing 'groping in the thicket' for 'the word I want . . . scrabbling like a squirrel on the oak's far side,' she tells us 'I could always pull the gift / from the lucky-dip barrel; scoop the right jewel / from my dragon's trove. . . .' We of course already know this. It's evident in every one of these poems."-Jacqueline Osherow , In their ample, embracing, nuanced appetite for sensory experience, [Partridge's] poems achieve an ardent, compassionate and unsentimental vision., "Partridge's impressive poems pursue a careful thinker's yearning for abandon, a loyal friend and partner's wish for change. Attentive to fact, to what she sees and knows, Partridge nonetheless makes space for what is wild, outside and within us-for the fears and the blanks of chemotherapy, for sharp variations within (and without) frames of metre and rhyme, and for the welcome consistencies of married love. She has learned detail-work, and patience, from Elizabeth Bishop, but she has made other virtues her own: riffs on familiar phrases open startling vistas and even her love poems get attractively practical. Hers is a welcome invitation: let's listen in."-Stephen Burt, "In their ample, embracing, nuanced appetite for sensory experience, [Partridge's] poems achieve an ardent, compassionate and unsentimental vision."-Robert Pinsky,WashingtonPost , Partridge's impressive poems pursue a careful thinker's yearning for abandon, a loyal friend and partner's wish for change. Attentive to fact, to what she sees and knows, Partridge nonetheless makes space for what is wild, outside and within us--for the fears and the blanks of chemotherapy, for sharp variations within (and without) frames of metre and rhyme, and for the welcome consistencies of married love. She has learned detail-work, and patience, from Elizabeth Bishop, but she has made other virtues her own: riffs on familiar phrases open startling vistas and even her love poems get attractively practical. Hers is a welcome invitation: let's listen in., Elise Partridge is a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line presents a new, glinting angle of thought. Whether she's contemplating relics of World War II, or a mosquito struggling in a spider web like 'a fast-forward Rockette,' or shirts spinning in a dryer, their arms flailing, Partridge's coolly surprising intelligence rediscovers the worlds she remakes in words. These poems--good, tangy and chunky on the tongue--somehow reflect life's plenitude while maintaining their own spareness and balance. The result is an art of eerie compassion and an almost hyper-realist perception of the small, like the snail seen rippling and gliding its way across a paved road: 'Bow sprit-antennae plunge, rise:/ safety's ten lifetimes ahead.', "In their ample, embracing, nuanced appetite for sensory experience, [Partridge's] poems achieve an ardent, compassionate and unsentimental vision."-Robert Pinsky, Washington Post, "Elise Partridge is a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line presents a new, glinting angle of thought. Whether she's contemplating relics of World War II, or a mosquito struggling in a spider web like 'a fast-forward Rockette,' or shirts spinning in a dryer, their arms flailing, Partridge's coolly surprising intelligence rediscovers the worlds she remakes in words. These poems-good, tangy and chunky on the tongue-somehow reflect life's plenitude while maintaining their own spareness and balance. The result is an art of eerie compassion and an almost hyper-realist perception of the small, like the snail seen rippling and gliding its way across a paved road: 'Bow sprit-antennae plunge, rise:/ safety's ten lifetimes ahead.'"-Rosanna Warren , Reading Chameleon Hours , I find myself marveling at the luck of each heron, mosquito, field of Queen Anne's Lace, each person, place, thing or circumstance in this beautiful book, to have Elise Partridge's exquisite and precise attention. And how lucky we are to get to listen in as she offers each of them her flawless ear; the book is full of understated sonic gems like 'a kickball straight into pink lilac.' In 'Chemo Side Effects: Memory,' after describing 'groping in the thicket' for 'the word I want . . . scrabbling like a squirrel on the oak's far side,' she tells us 'I could always pull the gift / from the lucky-dip barrel; scoop the right jewel / from my dragon's trove. . . .' We of course already know this. It's evident in every one of these poems., "ReadingChameleon Hours, I find myself marveling at the luck of each heron, mosquito, field of Queen Anne's Lace, each person, place, thing or circumstance in this beautiful book, to have Elise Partridge's exquisite and precise attention. And how lucky we are to get to listen in as she offers each of them her flawless ear; the book is full of understated sonic gems like 'a kickball straight into pink lilac.' In 'Chemo Side Effects: Memory,' after describing 'groping in the thicket' for 'the word I want . . . scrabbling like a squirrel on the oak's far side,' she tells us 'I could always pull the gift / from the lucky-dip barrel; scoop the right jewel / from my dragon's trove. . . .' We of course already know this. It's evident in every one of these poems."-Jacqueline Osherow
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Synopsis
From Ways of Going for Steve Will it be like paragliding -- gossamer takeoff, seedlike drifting down into a sunlit, unexpected grove? Or ski-jumping--headlong soaring, ski-tips piercing clouds, crystal revelations astonishing my goggles? . . . . Skittery flicker of a glare-weary lizard startled into the sheltering wings of a leaf, rusting freighter with a brimming hold shimmering onto a crimson edge. . . . Sad rower pushed from shore, I'll disappear like circles summoned by an oar's dip. However I burn through to the next atmosphere, let your dear face be the last thing I see. Whether writing poems about North American life and landscape; or love poems; or elegies for family and friends; or poems on serious, debilitating illness and the transformations it can effect--Elise Partridge offers in Chameleon Hours words forged by suffering and courage. Full of wit and empathy, Partridge's poems draw inspiration from sources as whimsical as tortoises and pontoons, as poignant as a homeless woman taking shelter inside a post office on a winter night, and as deeply personal as her own cancer diagnosis at a young age. Chameleon Hours is a book about the rewards of being reminded of one's own mortality and the lyric expression of life in all its intensity. Elise Partridge is a teacher and editor. She is the author of Fielder's Choice .
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.P373C47
Descrizione dell'oggetto fatta dal venditore
Informazioni sul venditore professionale
Expert Trading Limited
John Boyer
9220 Rumsey Rd
Ste 101
21045-1956 Columbia, MD
United States
Certifico che tutte le mie attività di vendita saranno conformi alle leggi e ai regolamenti dell'Unione Europea.
Registrato come venditore professionale
Feedback del venditore (353.733)
- i***y (712)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificato2 volumes of Pogo comic strips, new and in perfect condition. Price was good, but shipping cost ($30 for two books) seems like a lot for how long it took to get delivered (23 days from Illinois to Spain). Also, seller communication was not great. First two times I wrote, their response did not address question. Third response explained at length about the private courier service they use and how it should take 1-10 business days to deliver. Maybe they should consider a different courier service.
- o***l (313)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimo annoAcquisto verificatoThe item was described to a Tee. Very good communication. Shipping was just a little slow. The box the set of books comes in was damaged (bent corners) due to packaging. Not a deal breaker because the grand kids will not store in that box; might be if it were to be given as a present. The three books in the box arrived in prefect shape. I WOULD purchase from greatbookprices1 again in the future. ThanksConstruction Site Board Books Set, Hardcover by Rinker, Sherri Duskey; Lichte... (#364394914625)
- r***_ (108)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Mese scorsoAcquisto verificato*Same as the other review* Purchased two box sets from this seller with one being advertised as "like new" but was delivered as if it was actually new. Shipping time was a little slow, takes about 10 days to ship out and it takes a while to get through the system. But the packing was great and I'm still overall happy with my purchase.