Patricia Hampl
Autore di The Florist's Daughter
Sull'Autore
Patricia Hampl is Regents' Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Opere di Patricia Hampl
It's Come to This 1 copia
Opere correlate
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Collaboratore — 201 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1946-03-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Minnesota (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Attività lavorative
- poet
university professor
essayist - Organizzazioni
- University of Minnesota
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2001)
MacArthur Fellowship (1990)
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Utenti
Recensioni
The art of the wasted day di Patricia Hampl
A treasure of thoughts on leisure and writing, of travel spiced with recollections of a loving marriage. A beautiful book.
Enjoyed the premise. Did not read all the book as it seemed to go off course.
I really enjoyed Hampl's exploration of 'the wasted day', which of course is not exactly what it seems. The backbone of her book is the life and work of Montaigne, who described his essais as being that that is passing, as opposed to being an inward look. She also sites other solitaries, including monastic. A paean to daydreaming too.
This is also a memoir about her life, her ancestry, the things of import to her.
Along side this she explores the capacity to be solitary together, within a relationship, and talks out loud to her departed husband with whom she sat for many years across the yellow table. So as well as solitude, there is an acknowledgement of loss. An acknowledgement of a continued conversation.… (altro)
This is also a memoir about her life, her ancestry, the things of import to her.
Along side this she explores the capacity to be solitary together, within a relationship, and talks out loud to her departed husband with whom she sat for many years across the yellow table. So as well as solitude, there is an acknowledgement of loss. An acknowledgement of a continued conversation.… (altro)
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Caroline_McElwee | 10 altre recensioni | Nov 7, 2023 |
Caroline_McElwee | 10 altre recensioni | Nov 7, 2023 | 
Hempl writes memoir with the artistic flair of fiction. Her poignant account of her mother's passing includes detailed descriptions of St. Paul neighborhoods, her father's work as a florist, her own desire to reach beyond "the middle" of everything.
A historian friend loaned this title to me. After reading it I'm sure that the writer's clever weaving of time and place must be why she recommended it.
A historian friend loaned this title to me. After reading it I'm sure that the writer's clever weaving of time and place must be why she recommended it.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 19
- Utenti
- 1,415
- Popolarità
- #18,179
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 40
- ISBN
- 41
- Preferito da
- 3
