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From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has
lived the cowboy life-as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand,
as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light,
the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of
shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the
unmistakable westernness of the people and creatures around her:
the son who must get back on the horse that just bucked him off,
the husband who gives great gifts, the animals whose names and
temperaments are as recognizable as family. Auker understands those
who live in the sway of nature's moods far off the main roads, and
she commends them to us in luminous prose backlit by her own
hard-earned experience.
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Radical Landscapes (Paperback)
Darren Pih; Contributions by Guy Shrubsole, Amy Hale, Sui Searle, Maxwell Ayamba, …
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Throughout the twentieth-century artists have responded to the
landscape in emotional, physical and political ways: exploring
themes of belonging to the land by interrogating the relationship
between landscape history and identity, the enclosure or
militarisation of land, to artists creating works that harness or
dramatise natural earth processes. As the custodian of the national
collection of British art, Tate's climate emergency declaration
points to a wider concern and care for the environment that
underpins the themes in Radical Landscapes. Structured on three
broad thematic sections; 'Trespass', 'Landscape and Identity', and
'Climate Breakdown', there will be around 100 works in total
starting from 1900 until today. Focussing on activism and how we
value, care for, use and draw meaning from the natural landscape,
the book will showcase an array of viewpoints reflecting the
diverse perspectives in modern Britain, examining the artists'
relationship to the landscape and social history as a stimulus for
the imagination as much as action and protest. It presents a
radical and outward-facing image of Britain and its diverse peoples
and landscapes to the world. These conversations present a rare
opportunity to reframe Tate's holdings of landscape art as well as
explore how we might commune with nature and collectively work
towards a more sustainable and equitable future. Artists include
Henry Moore, Peter Kennard, Tacita Dean, Ingrid Pollard, Jeremy
Deller, Rose English, Chris Killip, Derek Jarman, Yuri Patterson,
Anthea Hamilton and many more.
The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and
occultist Ithell Colquhoun, This book offers the first in-depth
biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell
Colquhoun, situating her art within the magical contexts that
shaped her imaginative life and work. After decades of neglect,
Colquhoun's unique vision and hermetic life have become an object
of great renewed interest, both for artists and for historians of
magic. Although her paintings are represented in such major
collections as Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery,
Colquhoun's rejection of both avant-garde and occult orthodoxies
resulted in a life of relative obscurity. Her visual and written
works have only recently received adequate recognition as a
precursor to contemporary experiments in magical autobiography and
esoteric feminism. After rejecting the hectic social expectations
and magical orthodoxies of London's art and occult scenes,
Colquhoun pursued a life of dedicated spiritual and artistic
enquiry embodied in her retreat to Cornwall. Genius of the Fern
Loved Gully balances engaging biography with art historical
erudition and critical insight into the magical systems that
underscored her art and writing.
This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in
Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship. In
addition to providing a critical examination of important and under
researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these
fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of
esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters
are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics
in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power
and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds
important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to
change the way the story is told.
The winter Bride wears diamonds. To those down below, she appears
to be sleeping, locked inside a chastity belt of cold. She naps
lightly behind the veil of ice and snow, letting it shield her from
the sun and throw it back into the sky. But her chill is only skin
deep. Inside her hidden folds and caves and recesses, the heartbeat
of her lives and breathes and curls around the seeds of what
willbe. The winter Bride is pregnant, gestating the future, smiling
quietly at the snores of the bears and the mountain lions, allowing
all of the fertile places to swell and burgeon with the life that
is to come. The winter Bride is holding a flood in deposit for the
sun's withdrawal in spring. This is the canvas on which Amy Hale
Auker paints the lives of her characters. Shiney, the ranch owner;
Monte, the foreman; Rafe, the old hand; Jody, the new hand; Blake
and Brenna, who can't seem to grow up even though they have a
houseful of children. These, and many more, are waiting to show you
how they live, love, work, and play in the shadow of the Bride.
Auker's writing is extraordinary, as evidenced by these reviews of
her award-winning Rightful Place: "Her focus is sharp and
discerning, intimate and clear - so refreshing that her writing
transcends the contemporary cattle-culture and her harsh Texas
landscape to become a template for creating a richer life." John
Dofflemyer, author of Poems from Dry Creek "Auker is fiercely
connected - and will connect you as well - with the most elemental
spirits of the earth and the heart." Margo Metegrano, Director of
The Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry Winter of Beauty is a
novel by Amy Hale Auker, winner of the 2012 WILLA Literary Award
for Creative Nonfiction, which will bring joy to your heart and
tears to your eyes. Her words come from the heart and will melt
you, just like the sun melts the snow on Bride Mountain. A working
cowgirl, Auker writes and thrives on a ranch in Arizona where she
is having a love affair with rock, mountains, pinon and juniper
forests, the weather, and her songwriter husband, who is foreman of
the ranch. As Amy says, "For years I cooked for cowboys, cleaned up
after cowboys, listened to cowboys tell stories, but for the past
five years I have done my own time in the saddle. And I write.
Always I write." She guides her readers to a place where the bats
fly, lizards do pushups on the rocks, bears leave barefoot prints
in the dirt. Where hummingbirds do rain dances in August, spiders
weave for their food, and poetry is in the chrysalis and the
cocoon. Winter of Beauty will please the adult reader who enjoys
the apt description of people and things; the understanding of
nature, human or otherwise; and becoming immersed in them through a
turn of phrase that brings both clarity of thought and joy in the
reading."
The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series
includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the
novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining
history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle
plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-century Cornish patriot
and language revivalist.
Contributions by
Michael Bender, Amy Hale, Alan M. Kent, Cynthia Lane, Gary Magge,
Paul Manning, Philip Payton, Sharron P. Schwartz, Matthew Spriggs,
Andrew C. Symons, Andrew Thompson and Malcolm Williams
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Cornish Studies Volume 8 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Lynn Abrams, Katherine Bradley, Graham Busby, Paul Cockerham, …
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The eighth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the
only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the
past and present of a nation.
Contributions by
Lynn Abrams, Katherine Bradley, Graham Busby, Paul Cockerham, Treve
Crago, Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, Zoe Hambly, Dorothy Mindenhall,
Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, Sharron P. Schwartz, Garry Tregidga
and Simon Trezise
The primary aim of New Directions in Celtic Studies is to focus on
contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches
within the subject. Written by international scholars and
practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art
history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings
together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. It responds to
the recent questioning of the viability of the notion of
'Celticity' and the idea of Celtic Studies as a discipline and
points to a renewed vitality in the subject. New Directions in
Celtic Studies is divided into four sections: popular culture and
representation; commodities and Celtic lifestyles; contemporary
Celtic identity and the Celtic diaspora; Celtic praxis.
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