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"This book is an original, cogent account of the singular
Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), providing a concise
survey of his life within his social, cultural and literary
backdrop. Delving into the artist’s deliberately idiosyncratic
life, the book shows how Piero chose to live in squalor, and eat
nothing but boiled eggs, which (according to Vasari’s famous
Lives of the Artists) he cooked fifty at a time in his painting
glue. This book shows how the artist became the favourite of
sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences
with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero’s vividly
imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these
commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never
ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings
also won the admiration of leading Florentine families."
Lost in the woods with a horse, a mouse, and the ghost of a dead
bird, you will discover if you're meant to live. In Sarah Blake's
epic poem of survival, we follow a nameless main character lost in
the woods. There, they discover the world anew, negotiating their
place among the trees and the rain and the animals. Something
brought them to the woods that nearly killed them, and they're not
sure they want to live through this experience either. But the
world surprises them again and again with beauty and intrigue. They
come to meet a pregnant horse, a curious mouse, and a dead bird,
who is set on haunting them all. Blake examines what makes us human
when removed from the human world, what identity means where it is
a useless thing, and how loss shapes us. In a stunning setting and
with ominous dreams, In Springtime will take you into a magical
world without using any magic at all—just the strangeness of the
woods. 7. If only the night held one dream instead of many. In the
next dream you dig up the bird. In the next dream you dig in the
same place and find a gun. You've shot someone. You weren't
supposed to return to this place where you hid the gun. You're an
idiot in your dream. In the next dream the horse returns. The horse
startles you awake. But you are still asleep. Dreams are some
wicked things. In the next dream you are in a desert. That's
different. You forget what grass is. What it smells like. What the
shadows of trees look like across your legs. You laugh your head
off at the sight of a cactus. In the next dream you can see the
spirit of the bird that will haunt you for weeks. Her tongue makes
you think all of her words will come out garbled. Then you remember
all she does is sing.
Lost in the woods with a horse, a mouse, and the ghost of a dead
bird, you will discover if you're meant to live. In Sarah Blake's
epic poem of survival, we follow a nameless main character lost in
the woods. There, they discover the world anew, negotiating their
place among the trees and the rain and the animals. Something
brought them to the woods that nearly killed them, and they're not
sure they want to live through this experience either. But the
world surprises them again and again with beauty and intrigue. They
come to meet a pregnant horse, a curious mouse, and a dead bird,
who is set on haunting them all. Blake examines what makes us human
when removed from the human world, what identity means where it is
a useless thing, and how loss shapes us. In a stunning setting and
with ominous dreams, In Springtime will take you into a magical
world without using any magic at all—just the strangeness of the
woods. 7. If only the night held one dream instead of many. In the
next dream you dig up the bird. In the next dream you dig in the
same place and find a gun. You've shot someone. You weren't
supposed to return to this place where you hid the gun. You're an
idiot in your dream. In the next dream the horse returns. The horse
startles you awake. But you are still asleep. Dreams are some
wicked things. In the next dream you are in a desert. That's
different. You forget what grass is. What it smells like. What the
shadows of trees look like across your legs. You laugh your head
off at the sight of a cactus. In the next dream you can see the
spirit of the bird that will haunt you for weeks. Her tongue makes
you think all of her words will come out garbled. Then you remember
all she does is sing.
It is 1940. While war rages in Europe President Roosevelt promises
he won't send American boys to fight. In the small Cape Cod town of
Franklin postmistress Iris James firmly believes that her job is to
deliver and keep people's secrets. Meanwhile seemingly fearless
American radio gal Frankie Bard is reporting from the Blitz in
London imploring listeners to pay attention to what is going on.
The Postmistress is a tale of lost innocence.
The Sunday Times bestseller The Postmistress by Sarah Blake is a
heart-rending and profoundly moving story of love and loss in World
War II. It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick
of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She
huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and
later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets.
But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Listening to
Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod postmistress, and Emma Fitch, a
doctor's wife. Iris hears the winds stirring and knows that soon
the letters she delivers will bear messages of hope or tragedy.
Emma is desperate for news of London, where her husband is working
- she counts the days until his return. But one night in London the
fates of all three women entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a
letter she vows to deliver . . . The Postmistress is an
unforgettable story of three women: their loves, their partings and
the secrets they must bear, or bury . . . 'A beautifully written,
though-provoking novel that I'm telling everyone to read' Kathryn
Stockett, author of The Help 'A brilliant story, beautifully
crafted, that touches the heart and captures the imagination'
Sunday Express 'Unforgettable, heart-wrenching, captivating. A
profoundly moving story of love, loss and life in war time' Sunday
Independent 'Heartbreaking' Daily Express 'A World War Two
blockbuster with echoes of Atonement' Red 'A moving tale that will
stay with you long after the final page' Good Housekeeping Sarah
Blake lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the poet Josh
Weiner, and their two sons.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and provocative' Paula McLain
'Beautiful, engrossing, heart-breaking' Rachel Rhys 'Monumental in
a way that few novels dare attempt' Washington Post The Miltons are
a powerful old New York family - the kind of family that used to
run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton
seem to have it all: an elegant apartment on the Upper East Side,
two beautiful little boys, a love everyone envies. When a tragedy
befalls them, Ogden comforts Kitty the only way he knows how - they
go sailing, picnic on a small island off the coast of Maine, and
buy it. For generations the Miltons of Crockett Island revel in a
place that is entirely their own. But it's 1959, and the world is
changing: Ogden's firm hire a Jewish man, Len Levy, who earns the
admiration of not only his boss, but his boss's beautiful young
daughter. When Len and his friend visit the island, the Milton's
principles and prejudices are challenged like never before. At the
dawn of the 21st century, the family money has run dry, and the
island is up for sale. Returning for one last visit, Kitty's
granddaughter uncovers disturbing evidence about her family's
wealth - and realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding
the silences that seemed to hover just below the surface of her
family all her life. 'Thought-provoking and propulsive...Welcome to
old money, new heartbreak and big secrets' New York Times Book
Review
Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with
a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Blake uses
self-consciousness as a tool for transformation, looking so closely
at herself that she moves right through the looking glass and into
the larger world. Fear becomes palpable through the classification
of monsters and through violences made real. When the poems find
themselves in the domestic realm, something is always under threat.
The body is never safe, nor are the ghosts of the dead. But these
poems are not about cowering. By detailing the dangers we face as
humans, as Americans, and especially as women, these poems suggest
we might find a way through them. The final section of the book is
a feminist, science fiction epic poem, "The Starship," which
explores the interplay of perception and experience as it follows
the story of a woman who must constantly ask herself what she wants
as her world shifts around her.
Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with
a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Blake uses
self-consciousness as a tool for transformation, looking so closely
at herself that she moves right through the looking glass and into
the larger world. Fear becomes palpable through the classification
of monsters and through violences made real. When the poems find
themselves in the domestic realm, something is always under threat.
The body is never safe, nor are the ghosts of the dead. But these
poems are not about cowering. By detailing the dangers we face as
humans, as Americans, and especially as women, these poems suggest
we might find a way through them. The final section of the book is
a feminist, science fiction epic poem, "The Starship," which
explores the interplay of perception and experience as it follows
the story of a woman who must constantly ask herself what she wants
as her world shifts around her.
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Mr. West (Paperback)
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Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life
while also following the poet on her year spent researching,
writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to
celebrities-to their portrayal in the media-and how we sometimes
find great private meaning in another person's public story, even
across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work
from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to
improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture
as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America
itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking
work. An online reader's companion will be available at
http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
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Mr. West (Hardcover)
Sarah Blake
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Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life
while also following the poet on her year spent researching,
writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to
celebrities - to their portrayal in the media - and how we
sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public
story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics
take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly
wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully
engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is
revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and
a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be
available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
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