For most of his life, Burchfield kept a journal. Over 54 years, he filled nearly 10,000 pages. To call this journal epic would be an understatement. A masterpiece whose bulk has remained unread, it is a handwritten tome that combines elements of the American nature journal with a dash of nineteenth-...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Estes, Ben (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[Brooklyn, New York] The Song Cave [2023]
Schriftenreihe:	The song cave 52
Schlagworte:	Burchfield, Charles Ephraim > 1893-1967 Tagebuch
Zusammenfassung:	For most of his life, Burchfield kept a journal. Over 54 years, he filled nearly 10,000 pages. To call this journal epic would be an understatement. A masterpiece whose bulk has remained unread, it is a handwritten tome that combines elements of the American nature journal with a dash of nineteenth-­century spiritual autobiography. It is the record of a man who spent much of his life looking at and considering the sky. In this comparatively small selection pulled from the original 72 volumes, we have Burchfield writing about sitting in the grass with his wife to nap and watch the sunset. He writes about the elation he feels at seeing the first flowers in the spring. He writes about the rain, wind, and the sun. There's the resentment of having a job; the depres­sion that sneaks in as he gets older; sometimes, too, he writes about the state of human progress; and occasionally, thoughts about God. Featuring an intro­duction by scholar Nancy Weekly, The Sphinx and the Milky Way is a tender record of a life devoted to the essences of earthly beauty
Beschreibung:	xvi, 174 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:	9781734035148 1734035145