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- 9780393608298
- Book Title
- At the Center of All Beauty : Solitude and the Creative Life
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Creative Ability, General, Lgbt, Personality, Interpersonal Relations
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 12.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be a solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a larger community. Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion, common in his Roman Catholic childhood, that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic "solitaries" he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at Walden Pond and Emily Dickinson in Amherst, to Bill Cunningham photographing the streets of New York; from C zanne (married, but solitary nonetheless) painting Mt. St. Victoire over and over again, to the fiercely self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. Each character portrait is full of intense detail, the bright wakes they've left behind illuminating Fenton Johnson's own journey from his childhood in the backwoods of Kentucky to his travels alone throughout the world and the people he has lost and found along the way. Combining memoir, social criticism, and careful research, At the Center of All Beauty resonates with all solitaries and all who might wish to carve out more space for solitude.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393608298
ISBN-13
9780393608298
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9038301342
Product Key Features
Book Title
At the Center of All Beauty : Solitude and the Creative Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Creative Ability, General, Lgbt, Personality, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Bf637.S64j64 2020
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A fluid pastiche of memoir, social critique, literary criticism, mystical insights, and philosophical reflections...poetic yet profoundly accessible., A treasure that I didn't know I was looking for, one that unearthed and validated buried truths. This small book is incredible, both profound and humane...And yes, it is deeply beautiful. Fenton Johnson is one of our great writers., I love Fenton Johnson's sensibility. It's a joy and a balm to see the world through his eyes--and to rediscover solitude as our deepest and most powerful source of creativity and spirituality, even for people who are coupled., Part memoir, part critical study of writers and artists, part queer manifesto, At the Center of All Beauty is about Fenton Johnson's effort to live deliberately, which in his case means alone... This is a beautifully written book... Reading At the Center of All Beauty, I came to see that each of us, single or coupled, has access to an interior life, a center of beauty, if only, as Johnson forcefully argues, we are not afraid of silence, of listening, of solitude, and what it has to teach us., In this lyrical yet finely argued book, Johnson sets out to show that being alone -- so different from loneliness, its direct opposite, in fact -- is absolutely essential to the creative life...meticulous, loving prose., At the Center of All Beauty was a treasure that I didn't know I was looking for, one that unearthed and validated buried truths. This small book is incredible, both profound and humane...And yes, it is deeply beautiful. Fenton Johnson is one of our great writers., In studies of the lives of beloved artists, and in beautiful meditations on his own life, Fenton Johnson encourages us to understand solitariness as consecration, a fecund, rich condition for the pursuit of beauty. Fenton Johnson's writing is so companionable and wise that it enacts what it counsels...it converts sterile loneliness to creative solitude., A work of staggering tenderness, intelligence and beauty...a new vision of self, community and home. This achingly honest and gorgeously written book should come with a warning: It will change you.
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2020
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2019-044449
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