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"All of you who contributed to this book write much better than I
did in high school." That remarkable observation was made by Pat
Conroy in the foreword to the first collection of student writing
generated by the South Carolina High School Writing Contest, and it
embodies the contest's goals: to encourage young people to write,
to think deeply and creatively, to express themselves and thereby
to recognize and cultivate their abilities. This second volume of
Writing South Carolina features the insightful and inspiring
entries of each of the twenty-nine winners and finalists: high
school juniors and seniors who were challenged to share, using any
genre, their ideas for making South Carolina a better place to
live.
South Carolina is a state of inspiration as well as recreation.
Through its natural beauty, storied heritage, and curious
character, the Palmetto State finds its way into the hearts and
imaginations of every native, resident, and guest to set foot on
its 32,000 square miles of soil. Continuing the format of the
popular original, this second volume of State of the Heart: South
Carolina Writers on the Places They Love celebrates and
commemorates the connections that the accomplished contributors
have found in the well-known and far-flung locations most dear to
them. With companionable charm and storytellers' spirits, editor
Rogers, Aida and the thirty-eight contributors invite you to amble
across South Carolina with them for a chance to see the state as
they have come to know it. For writers beloved places can
captivate, teach, comfort, and occasionally haunt. In this
collection contributors reflect on their hometowns, the rivers and
roads that marked their lives' journeys, and the maligned
neighbourhoods they transformed just by living and working in them.
Family beach vacations, churches and churchyards, athletic arenas
modest and grand, a mountain vista, a quiet pond, a city park, an
old-time produce market, Lake Murray, Brookgreen Gardens these are
just a sampling of the nearly three dozen private and public places
favoured by this diverse group of writers of fiction, memoir,
poetry, history, journalism, and more. Photographs, artwork, verse,
and even a few recipes accompany the essays, bringing readers
further into sharing the writers' experiences. While State of the
Heart is rooted in the landscape of South Carolina, readers from
anywhere will relate to its universal themes of growing up and
growing old, recognition of past mistakes, returned-to faith, the
closeness of family and friends, honouring those who came before,
and setting our collective sights on the promise of the future for
cherished people and places. Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina's
poet laureate, provides the foreword to this collection, which
includes her poem ""One River, One Boat.
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to
those who view it but also to led to a desire to respond. The best
artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist
Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide range of responses from
artists around the world. In Seeking we see how Green's art prompts
works of poetry, prose, and memoir. Seeking's evocative power lies
in the intimacy of this dialogue, which speaks to the shared sense
of landscape and culture that Green stirs in these writers, ranging
from close friends and fellow artists from his home state of South
Carolina to nationally established authors who regard Green's work
as an important cultural institution. The contributors have allowed
themselves to be challenged by Green's brilliance, his honesty, his
intense spirituality, and his deep love of people. Inspired by a
personal quest toward induction into a spiritual community, Green's
painting Seeking is rich with history, myth, and truth. The writers
in this collection have found fertile ground for their own
responses to Green's work, and the result is an engaging and
enlivening chorus of celebratory voices.
Edited by Kwame Dawes and Marjory Wentworth, this collection
features eleven color paintings by Green in addition to a preface
on the history of the project, information on the painting Seeking,
and an artist's statement.
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to
those who view it but also to led to a desire to respond. The best
artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist
Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide range of responses from
artists around the world. In Seeking we see how Green's art prompts
works of poetry, prose, and memoir. Seeking's evocative power lies
in the intimacy of this dialogue, which speaks to the shared sense
of landscape and culture that Green stirs in these writers, ranging
from close friends and fellow artists from his home state of South
Carolina to nationally established authors who regard Green's work
as an important cultural institution. The contributors have allowed
themselves to be challenged by Green's brilliance, his honesty, his
intense spirituality, and his deep love of people. Inspired by a
personal quest toward induction into a spiritual community, Green's
painting Seeking is rich with history, myth, and truth. The writers
in this collection have found fertile ground for their own
responses to Green's work, and the result is an engaging and
enlivening chorus of celebratory voices.
Edited by Kwame Dawes and Marjory Wentworth, this collection
features eleven color paintings by Green in addition to a preface
on the history of the project, information on the painting Seeking,
and an artist's statement.
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