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Stone Talks (Paperback)
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Stone Talks (Paperback)
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Loot Price R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted
poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and
our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to
listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and trees
and sky and stars and sea that we participate in and that
participates in us. It reawakens a childlike curiosity in us, makes
connections that we had forgotten, and gives us permission to
experience the world in an embodied and vibrant way that was
drummed out of the rest of us long ago. The book starts with an
essay on KInship inspired by Donna Haraway's ideas about how we
must make relationships of kin with all things, including what she
refers to as `critters’. In it, Alyson explores the twin ideas of
embodied reading and embodied walking. How, exactly, can we embody
the ideas in a book? Here, the author "dives into kinship with the
decomposed bodies of plankton, plants and animals whose liquidation
created that beautiful, black viscous gold we call oil". In the
title essay, Stone Talks, Alyson revisits the keynote lecture she
gave at the `In Other Tongues’ symposium at Dartington. In it she
explores her lived experience of being talked to and guided in her
life by stones. She examines the ideas of obedience and yielding,
the body as a wilderness, and unfolds a walked artwork with stones
that she undertook soon after her father died. In Haunted
Landscapes, Alyson explores the marks and traces of our own and
others' lives that inhabit our bodies and experience. Wandering
into quantum physics, she asks questions that "set me afloat on a
fathomless sea". Finally, in The Stone Monologues, Alyson embarks
on a quest to "understand myself not as a single thing, a single
point, but rather a constellation, a layered interruption in time
comprising everyone and everything I encounter". Alyson Hallett has
received Arts Council awards for her work. She is a Hawthornden
Fellow, works part-time for the Royal Literary Fund and loves
collaborating with other artists and scientists. She has a
doctorate in poetry with research into geographical intimacy. In
Stone Talks, she shares some of what she is learning from stones.
She talks “from the mud. From the earth. From the place we haunt
and are haunted by.” The talking is exquisite.
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