Water

Poems and Drawings
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-68283-183-0
Verlag: Texas Tech University Press

Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 195 g

Reihe: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Water is a collection of poetry, watercolors, and pen-and-ink drawings from poet and author Susan Brind Morrow. Water is the organizing concept; it is also the urtext of the artistic process, the window between the natural world and our representations of it. The interplay between the media creates a unique reading experience that will appeal to readers of poetry and art books. Morrow’s award-winning work on Egyptian poetry and religious texts manifests here in transcriptions of hieroglyphs and accompanying ink drawings. Water is a unique ars poetica for one of our most singular contemporary American voices.

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• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Brind Morrow is an author and poet who has written extensively on language and metaphor drawn from the natural world. Morrow studied Greek, Latin, Arabic, and hieroglyphic texts as an undergraduate and graduate student in Classics at Columbia University. Morrow first went to Egypt as an archaeologist on the Dakhleh Oasis Project and continued to live and study in Egypt and Sudan. This decade of work became her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, one of three finalists for the PEN Award in 1998. Morrow’s analysis, translation, and commentary of the hieroglyphic text in the Pyramid of Unis, The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2015. Morrow is the author of Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World. Morrow’s work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Nation, The Seneca Review, Peripheries, Best American Poetry, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Morrow is a recipient of the 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Chatham, New York.