Theresa Kishkan

Mnemonic

A Book of Trees

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Warm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this unusual book intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments of life. For Theresa Kishkan, trees are memory markers of life, and in Mnemonic, she explores the presence of trees in nature, in culture, and in her personal history. Naming each chapter for a particular tree -- the Garry oak, the Ponderosa pine, the silver olive, the plane tree, the arbutus, and others -- she draws on Pliny the Elder's Natural History, John Evelyn's Sylva, and strands of mythology from other sources to blend scientific fact with natural history and the artifacts of human culture. In the words of Pliny the Elder, "Hence it is right to follow the natural order, to speak about trees before other things . . . "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780864926517
• ISBN-10: 0864926510
• Artikelnr.: 33774255

Autorenporträt

Theresa Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Her essays have appeared in Memewar, Dandelion, Lake, Contrary, The New Quarterly, Cerise, and many other magazines and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Relit Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction. Her collection of essays, Phantom Limb , won the first Readers' Choice Award from the Canadian Creative Non-Fiction Collective in 2009. An essay from Mnemonic won the 2010 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Prize.