Train Music - Giscombe, C S

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Résumé :
Train Music chronicles the 2017 four-day railroad trip (New York to California) of poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis, old friends. Giscombe was returning home to address an all-white audience on white supremacy; expatriate Margolis, usually solitary and itinerant, was visiting the country of her birth, drawing scenery and collaging insomniac night visions. Journeying, conversing, arguing, sharing memories, they document a complex and volatile American landscape, one at once geographical and historical, one holding specific implications for the lives of both. Margolis and Giscombe chart their own passage through all that, through a dangerous and puzzling world that-too often-passes as normal. Train Music is the insistent and unlikely shape that the two sensibilities achieve--

Biographie:
C. S. Giscombe is the author of Prairie Style, Giscombe Road, Here, Into and Out of Dislocation, among others. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and is a long-distance cyclist. Judith Margolis is an artist and essayist. Margolis is the author of Life Support: Invitation to Prayer and Countdown to Perfection: Meditationson the Sefirot, and Margolis's book art is included in the collections of the New York Public Library, Yale University, University of Washington, UCLA, and the Jaffe Book Arts Center. Margolis was born and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA and now lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Sommaire:
C. S. Giscombe is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including Giscome Road, winner of the Carl Sandburg Prize...