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SIESTA SPUR: EINE KABINE, KEIN FLIESSENDES WASSER UND EIN JAHR von Amy Minato - Hardcover
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- Artikelzustand
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Skyhorse Publishing
- ISBN-10
- 1602393281
- ISBN
- 9781602393288
- Book Title
- Siesta Lane : A Year Unplugged, or, the Good Intentions of Ten People, Two Cats, One Old Dog, Eight Acres, One Telephone, Three Cars, and Twenty Miles to the Nearest Town
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Sociology / Rural
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature--specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. "Siesta Lane" is both a practical case study in living green, and the heartwarming story of a modern idealist who discovers just what it takes to live a year unplugged.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1602393281
ISBN-13
9781602393288
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66585101
Product Key Features
Book Title
Siesta Lane : A Year Unplugged, or, the Good Intentions of Ten People, Two Cats, One Old Dog, Eight Acres, One Telephone, Three Cars, and Twenty Miles to the Nearest Town
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hx655.O7m56 2009
Reviews
"A restless city poet recounts her experiment with country living.The idea to swim against the "consumptive current" and move west came to Minato (The Wider Lens, 2004) during a Chicago traffic jam. Increasingly bothered by the global impact her metropolitan existence was having on the environment, the poet packed up and headed to Oregon for graduate school. But after eight years, even Eugene proved too urban for her, and she moved again, this time to a ten-square-foot cabin that was part of an eight-acre commune on Siesta Lane in the relative wilds of Rainbow Valley, Ore. Her memoir, a veritable menagerie of thoughts, observations, photos, poems and lovely pen-and-ink drawings by Muir, is the result of Minato's year or so away, where she discovered as much about herself as the wonders of nature. "Not so simple--simple living," she realized early on. Characterizing each of her fellow Siesta Lane residents, the author doesn't neglect herself, saying she's a "single woman with ninety-eight part-time jobs trying to figure out how she connects to the greater forces of the universe and to the tiny earwigs that hide in the curled-up seed heads of Queen Anne's lace." Part of this volume's charm lies in its somewhat fractured composition, which mirrors the author's state of mind during this transitional period. Short chapters hop from "Incubation" to "Freaks" to "July" to "The Garden," while loosely conveying the sense of time's passage as Minato adjusted to her rustic domestic situation. Living without many modern conveniences--for example, only the commune's main building had a kitchen and running water--led her to provocative conclusions: "For us it appears to primarily be the mind that evolves, and we then cater our surroundings to our weakening bodies." She took some radical actions as well, such as getting rid of her cat after he brought home one too many birds.An evocative record of a year in the woods and an interesting study in enacting one's beliefs.", When the urban bustle of Eugene, Ore., got to be too much, poet Minato (The Wider Lens) moved to a woodsy cabin on a commune and absorbed a year's worth of material for this uneven collection of essays and poems. Simplifying her life in the rustic surroundings, she learned that it is freeing to emerge, even unwillingly, from the clutch of possessions. A decomposing raccoon attuned her to the realities of life and death, chopping wood taught her patience, and snails reminded her to slow down. Minato's lyrical prose tosses off beguiling evocations of the landscape and flora around her (The pheasants come out of the grass like puffs of smoke) in almost every line. Unfortunately, her belletristic pensées can seem precious (What is lost when I deny myself cloud-gazing?) and her denunciations of consumer society sound both strident and shallow (Why must there be 30 kinds of cereal'... Every minuscule decision takes time and energy, takes me that much further away from my writing, the land, the people I love and my connection with everything deeper). There is finely wrought nature writing here, but pat assumptions about rural authenticity and the corruptions of society make Minato's year on the land seem curiously unexamined. , When the urban bustle of Eugene, Ore., got to be too much, poet Minato ( The Wider Lens ) moved to a woodsy cabin on a commune and absorbed a year's worth of material for this uneven collection of essays and poems. Simplifying her life in the rustic surroundings, she learned that it is freeing to emerge, even unwillingly, from the clutch of possessions. A decomposing raccoon attuned her to the realities of life and death, chopping wood taught her patience, and snails reminded her to slow down. Minato's lyrical prose tosses off beguiling evocations of the landscape and flora around her (The pheasants come out of the grass like puffs of smoke) in almost every line. Unfortunately, her belletristic pensées can seem precious (What is lost when I deny myself cloud-gazing?) and her denunciations of consumer society sound both strident and shallow (Why must there be 30 kinds of cereal'... Every minuscule decision takes time and energy, takes me that much further away from my writing, the land, the people I love and my connection with everything deeper). There is finely wrought nature writing here, but pat assumptions about rural authenticity and the corruptions of society make Minato's year on the land seem curiously unexamined. , "A restless city poet recounts her experiment with country living. The idea to swim against the "consumptive current" and move west came to Minato (The Wider Lens, 2004) during a Chicago traffic jam. Increasingly bothered by the global impact her metropolitan existence was having on the environment, the poet packed up and headed to Oregon for graduate school. But after eight years, even Eugene proved too urban for her, and she moved again, this time to a ten-square-foot cabin that was part of an eight-acre commune on Siesta Lane in the relative wilds of Rainbow Valley, Ore. Her memoir, a veritable menagerie of thoughts, observations, photos, poems and lovely pen-and-ink drawings by Muir, is the result of Minato's year or so away, where she discovered as much about herself as the wonders of nature. "Not so simple--simple living," she realized early on. Characterizing each of her fellow Siesta Lane residents, the author doesn't neglect herself, saying she's a "single woman with ninety-eight part-time jobs trying to figure out how she connects to the greater forces of the universe and to the tiny earwigs that hide in the curled-up seed heads of Queen Anne's lace." Part of this volume's charm lies in its somewhat fractured composition, which mirrors the author's state of mind during this transitional period. Short chapters hop from "Incubation" to "Freaks" to "July" to "The Garden," while loosely conveying the sense of time's passage as Minato adjusted to her rustic domestic situation. Living without many modern conveniences--for example, only the commune's main building had a kitchen and running water--led her to provocative conclusions: "For us it appears to primarily be the mind that evolves, and we then cater our surroundings to our weakening bodies." She took some radical actions as well, such as getting rid of her cat after he brought home one too many birds. An evocative record of a year in the woods and an interesting study in enacting one's beliefs. ", "A restless city poet recounts her experiment with country living. The idea to swim against the "consumptive current" and move west came to Minato (The Wider Lens, 2004) during a Chicago traffic jam. Increasingly bothered by the global impact her metropolitan existence was having on the environment, the poet packed up and headed to Oregon for graduate school. But after eight years, even Eugene proved too urban for her, and she moved again, this time to a ten-square-foot cabin that was part of an eight-acre commune on Siesta Lane in the relative wilds of Rainbow Valley, Ore. Her memoir, a veritable menagerie of thoughts, observations, photos, poems and lovely pen-and-ink drawings by Muir, is the result of Minato's year or so away, where she discovered as much about herself as the wonders of nature. "Not so simple-simple living," she realized early on. Characterizing each of her fellow Siesta Lane residents, the author doesn't neglect herself, saying she's a "single woman with ninety-eight part-time jobs trying to figure out how she connects to the greater forces of the universe and to the tiny earwigs that hide in the curled-up seed heads of Queen Anne's lace." Part of this volume's charm lies in its somewhat fractured composition, which mirrors the author's state of mind during this transitional period. Short chapters hop from "Incubation" to "Freaks" to "July" to "The Garden," while loosely conveying the sense of time's passage as Minato adjusted to her rustic domestic situation. Living without many modern conveniences-for example, only the commune's main building had a kitchen and running water-led her to provocative conclusions: "For us it appears to primarily be the mind that evolves, and we then cater our surroundings to our weakening bodies." She took some radical actions as well, such as getting rid of her cat after he brought home one too many birds. An evocative record of a year in the woods and an interesting study in enacting one's beliefs. "
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