2007, ISBN: 9780822958888

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Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 2007. .. Hardcover. New. .. .. Concern for environment is as old as human civilization. The traditional society took sanctity of environment for granted as a neces… Meer...

Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 2007. .. Hardcover. New. .. .. Concern for environment is as old as human civilization. The traditional society took sanctity of environment for granted as a necessary precondition for the existence of human society. But this situation started changing after the industrial revolution when human society with the help of technologically a advanced knowledge system started making significant changes in the whole environment and this gave the society an understanding that man will be able to modify the environment according to his will and need. Now need based development of the pre-industrial era has been replace by greed based development which is made by the rampant consumption of resources by the society. Under this changed scenario the environment is more stressed and degradation has started taking place. At the present era when man has technologically developed at a very higher level and environment is getting degraded at an alarming rate, the very existence of human society is now at a stake. Even then, plunder of nature at the cost of human progress is continuing virtually unabated. We have lost the basic theme of human development or progress wherein the environment is considered as a living entity. This has resulted into serious environmental crisis and forest has become the most vulnerable area on the earth surface which suffered greatly due to human intervention in the from of clearing the forest for various types of crops, mining, industrial development, construction of dams etc. Anthropological Survey of India under the Tenth Five Year Plan has undertaken a National Project on Man in Biosphere and Sundarban Biosphere Reserve has been selected for detailed study. The present title is outcome of this research and deals with the following problems: Tourism as a potential resource, impact of tourism on cultural landscape, structure, cognition and symbolism of forest in folk tradition, contact and conflict, delta culture, tribes of Sundarban, strategy for ecological balance and evolution of ecotourism activity. Printed Pages: 278., Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 2007, University of Arizona Press, Tucson . Softcover. Brand new book. In her debut poetry collection, Carmen GimŽnez Smith illuminates Latina identity in the prismatic light of postcolonial history, feminism, myth, and the fragmentation of modernity. From these disparate elements she fashions a female personaÑ"clairvoyant with great shoes"Ñwho is both bracingly modern and movingly vulnerable. Through her poems we traverse the landscape of a woman's life (girl, mother, lover), navigating a terrain tinted with mythology and relic yet still fresh and uncharted. The poems revolve around issues of identityÑand the ways in which identity is both inherited and constructed/reconstructed. Or, as one poem puts it, "The planet floating backwards / whirling some of us older than the stars, some of us nascent and bare." Although she employs techniques of avant-garde poetry, GimŽnez Smith shades and deepens the New World landscape into a territory of rare lyric intensity and energy. Humorous, sly, sexy, sophisticated, these poems are animated by passion and hard-won knowledge. In these poems we encounter such strange beauties as a girl assembling and disassembling, a moth trapped in a glass of water, new-age fairy godmothers, and a lark who sings for the milkman. Yet we are also made aware of how these beauties reflect the speaker's troublesÑher effort to employ, in the words of one of her most memorable poems, "Only the invisible post where she writes the encounters / with air's lusters. Only the imagined hour / with which she's made a fragile craft." Vivid and charged with an inner light, these are poems that linger and expand in the mind and memory., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, University of Pittsburgh Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 96 pages. Dimensions: 8.3in. x 6.0in. x 0.3in.Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeBlue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsessionhow what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable. Smiths relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, Blue on Blue Ground constructs its internal and external worlds. The metaphorical city is also a body, a place of exile and restoration, a symbol of hope, a catalyst for connection. The urban landscape is often the background for the moment or is the moment itselfthe world looked at and sorted into words. Though at times dark, theres love to be found. Perhaps its what drives this collection, colors its observations, and leads it to finally announce: Someone is putting the world back together. Blue on Blue Ground wants to look at absolutely everything and believes that complete exploration of the physical and mental selvesfears and desiresis the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., University of Pittsburgh Press<

2004, ISBN: 9780822958888

Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize "Blue on Blue Ground" is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession— how what we want redeems and isolates us (… Meer...

Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize "Blue on Blue Ground" is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession— how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us).  These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable. Smith’ s relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, "Blue on Blue Ground" constructs its internal and external worlds. The metaphorical city is also a “ body, ” a place of exile and restoration, a symbol of hope, a catalyst for connection.  The urban landscape is often the background for the moment or is the moment itself— the world looked at and sorted into words. Though at times dark, there’ s love to be found. Perhaps it’ s what drives this collection, colors its observations, and leads it to finally announce: “ Someone is putting the world back together.”   < I> Blue on Blue Ground< /I> wants to look at absolutely everything and believes that complete exploration of the physical and mental selves— fears and desires— is the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world. Blue on Blue Ground Smith, Aaron, University of Pittsburgh Press<

2004, ISBN: 0822958880

Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize"Blue on Blue Ground" is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used… Meer...

Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize"Blue on Blue Ground" is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable.Smith s relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, "Blue on Blue Ground" constructs its internal and external worlds.The metaphorical city is also a body, a place of exile and restoration, a symbol of hope, a catalyst for connection. The urban landscape is often the background for the moment or is the moment itself the world looked at and sorted into words.Though at times dark, there s love to be found. Perhaps it s what drives this collection, colors its observations, and leads it to finally announce: Someone is putting the world back together. "Blue on Blue Ground" wants to look at absolutely everything and believes that complete exploration of the physical and mental selves fears and desires is the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world. literature and fiction,poetry Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press<