Ley Lines Contributor(s): Hix, H. L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1771120320 ISBN-13: 9781771120326 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Art |
Dewey: 701.17 |
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.46" W x 9.51" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they're artworks and poems. Its various forms of exchange between writers and artists offer unique access to contemporary art, poetry, and the creative process. In this unique anthology, working poets respond to questions about their recent books, painters and other artists offer statements about their work, and writers respond to artworks. These offerings and exchanges are juxtaposed so as to speak to one another in a capacious, resonant dialogue. The result is a broad-minded and inclusive poetics, a vision of creative work as a constituent of personal and civic life. Anyone who nurtures the creative impulse will enjoy Ley Lines and return to it again and again. Writing students, art students, and any reader engaged in artistic practice will find in Ley Lines not a how-to manual or step-by-step instruction but an inexhaustible vein of instructive reflection on imaginative work and the creative life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hix, H. L.: - H. L. Hix is the author or editor of more than two dozen books. His most recent poetry collection is As Much As, If Not More Than. He lives with the poet Kate Northrop in an 1880s railroad house in the mountain west, and writes in a studio that once was a barn. His website is www.hlhix.com. |