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Selling the Farm

Debra Di Blasi

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Description:****WINNER C&R PRESS NONFICTION AWARD****"Selling the Farm is a work of rare sophistication, a source of beauty amid calamity."–Charles Holdefer, Full-Stop MagazineRaised in a family of seven, in a small ramshackle farmhouse without plumbing, award-winning author Debra Di Blasi maps a candid and eloquent memoir of a Midwest childhood both land rich and dirt poor, both heaven and hell.Surrounded by creatures big and small, rolling fields and pastures, weedy lawn, deep woods and shimmering waters, she wrestles with the complexity of an overcrowded family shaped by place and doomed to tear itself apart. Selling the Farm explores the difficult intersection of grief and love, and the many contradictions in nature, life and death, and memory itself. Her lyrical recollections move from season to season with language visually and aurally shaped to reconsider the ways that we bear witness to any place and time--and to ourselves amid all.PRAISE FOR SELLING THE FARM“Debra Di Blasi’s extended lyric essay Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past is at once a sustained consideration of the strange and felt world of children, a meditation on time and ‘memory’s echo,’ and a profoundly moving elegy for a lost sister. It’s also an exercise in awe: at the natural world, where animals have ‘cut eons into black loam,’ and at the murky, distant, and too-often cruel world of adults. Above all else, Selling the Farm is an exploration of the placeness of childhood, which Di Blasi brings into focus with astonishing precision, intelligence, and complexity. For those who find in themselves a knee-jerk inclination to see the rural Midwest as merely flat and plain and simple, this book is a perfect, stunning corrective.”—Wayne Miller, author of Post- and winner of the 2017 Rilke Prize“Through dynamic layering of sound and syntax, lyric juxtaposition of scene, and agile engagement with the landscape of the page, Di Blasi captures the strange and unstable way that memory works and follows Walter Benjamin’s cue that a book should ‘either dissolve a genre or invent one.’ Owing much to Hopkins’ sprung rhythm, an activist sensibility, and a rollicking disruption and reanimation of memoir’s fundamentals, Selling the Farm—with its snapshots of fallow fields and water’s muddy haste and roar, flashes of childhood ghosts, lineages of grief, populations of sparrows, and meanwhiles of bee colony collapse—is an uprooted biography of place in the tempered un-space of time, a book through which the am-I-there of memory breaks open and reimagines the very genre of memoir.”–EJ Colen, author of What Weaponry and The Green Condition“God assigned Adam to name what he saw around him. For all we know, it may have been Eve, the first scientist, who took it on. In Selling the Farm Debra Di Blasi continues the tradition, gifting us a stirring and richly visual tapestry and language of Nature, observing and naming plants, animals, insects, worms, stones. She brings alive a kind of Eden for the five siblings, weighed against ‘the parents’ endless shouting inside the airless house’ and a father who ‘squandered his poetry in stubborn silence.’ With spare and minute details, Di Blasi manages to convey the full spectrum of feelings that color our relationship with family, and hers with Nature.”—Tsipi Keller, author of Nadja on Nadja and The Prophet of Tenth StreetWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Selling the Farm. To get started finding Selling the Farm, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 148

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: C&R Press

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1949540138

Description: ****WINNER C&R PRESS NONFICTION AWARD****"Selling the Farm is a work of rare sophistication, a source of beauty amid calamity."–Charles Holdefer, Full-Stop MagazineRaised in a family of seven, in a small ramshackle farmhouse without plumbing, award-winning author Debra Di Blasi maps a candid and eloquent memoir of a Midwest childhood both land rich and dirt poor, both heaven and hell.Surrounded by creatures big and small, rolling fields and pastures, weedy lawn, deep woods and shimmering waters, she wrestles with the complexity of an overcrowded family shaped by place and doomed to tear itself apart. Selling the Farm explores the difficult intersection of grief and love, and the many contradictions in nature, life and death, and memory itself. Her lyrical recollections move from season to season with language visually and aurally shaped to reconsider the ways that we bear witness to any place and time--and to ourselves amid all.PRAISE FOR SELLING THE FARM“Debra Di Blasi’s extended lyric essay Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past is at once a sustained consideration of the strange and felt world of children, a meditation on time and ‘memory’s echo,’ and a profoundly moving elegy for a lost sister. It’s also an exercise in awe: at the natural world, where animals have ‘cut eons into black loam,’ and at the murky, distant, and too-often cruel world of adults. Above all else, Selling the Farm is an exploration of the placeness of childhood, which Di Blasi brings into focus with astonishing precision, intelligence, and complexity. For those who find in themselves a knee-jerk inclination to see the rural Midwest as merely flat and plain and simple, this book is a perfect, stunning corrective.”—Wayne Miller, author of Post- and winner of the 2017 Rilke Prize“Through dynamic layering of sound and syntax, lyric juxtaposition of scene, and agile engagement with the landscape of the page, Di Blasi captures the strange and unstable way that memory works and follows Walter Benjamin’s cue that a book should ‘either dissolve a genre or invent one.’ Owing much to Hopkins’ sprung rhythm, an activist sensibility, and a rollicking disruption and reanimation of memoir’s fundamentals, Selling the Farm—with its snapshots of fallow fields and water’s muddy haste and roar, flashes of childhood ghosts, lineages of grief, populations of sparrows, and meanwhiles of bee colony collapse—is an uprooted biography of place in the tempered un-space of time, a book through which the am-I-there of memory breaks open and reimagines the very genre of memoir.”–EJ Colen, author of What Weaponry and The Green Condition“God assigned Adam to name what he saw around him. For all we know, it may have been Eve, the first scientist, who took it on. In Selling the Farm Debra Di Blasi continues the tradition, gifting us a stirring and richly visual tapestry and language of Nature, observing and naming plants, animals, insects, worms, stones. She brings alive a kind of Eden for the five siblings, weighed against ‘the parents’ endless shouting inside the airless house’ and a father who ‘squandered his poetry in stubborn silence.’ With spare and minute details, Di Blasi manages to convey the full spectrum of feelings that color our relationship with family, and hers with Nature.”—Tsipi Keller, author of Nadja on Nadja and The Prophet of Tenth StreetWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Selling the Farm. To get started finding Selling the Farm, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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