Leaves Postcards

Leaves Postcards
Author: Alice Thoms Vitale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781556709524

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What is a leaf?Walt Whitman said, "Every leaf a miracle".To Alice Thoms Vitale, 87, a teacher, an artist, and the author of Leaves: In Myth, Magic & Medicine (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997), a leaf is nature's unsung wonder. She has dedicated the past 30 years of her life to researching and creating authentic portraits of living leaves.The images from her book, with almost 20,000 copies sold to date, can now be enjoyed in postcards. Fifteen portraits of leaves (two copies of each) that have scented gardens, homes, and altars, provided nourishment, enriched the flavor of food, added color to fabrics, and been the source for powerful medicines will decorate your correspondence. And those who receive the gift of Alice Thoms Vitale's lifelong work will be enchanted by its beauty.

Rereading Modernist Postcards

Rereading Modernist Postcards
Author: Bradley D. Clissold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000922782

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Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939). It argues that postcards need to be recognized as important early twentieth-century communication technologies and distinctly modernist textualities, composed of multimedia, recto–verso intertextualities. Moreover, their material limitations encourage users to inscribe messages often in fragmented language forms and innovative cultural shorthands (a.k.a. postcardese). This study redresses the ongoing, widespread scholarly neglect of signifying postcard materialities in modernist studies and the editorial silencing of postcard features in collections of published author correspondence. It also stresses that for these four literary figures of modernism, the material choice of a postcard for communicating is always as much the (meta)message, as any of the signifying materialities they carry uploaded onto their platforming surfaces.

Postcards from Here

Postcards from Here
Author: Penny Guisinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Short stories, Australian
ISBN: 9781925417050

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"Postcards from Here" is a capturing of a community, a harsh and beautiful place, a family, and the internal experience of its author in the form of micro-essays. The book takes on the realities of rural New England life, the moments and details that stitch a community together, the politics of being gay and divorced in such a place, and the visceral details of raising children, gardening, porcupines, travel, marriage, and other hazards of living. Written in a coastal community at the eastern edge of the United States, this book works to transcend the Maine depicted on touristy postcards by crafting missives its rural residents might really send-what true stories this place and its people have to tell. The individual pieces in "Postcards" tell stories that are both intensely personal and entirely communal in scope, and as a collection they create a portrait of one person's attempt to do a good job at this business of being human.

Postcards

Postcards
Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1996-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684833689

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The story of a well-meaning fugitive-at-large provides a glimpse of America's past as it follows Loyal Blood from his home in Vermont, where he mistakenly commits a heinous crime, to the coast of California

Letters, Postcards, Email

Letters, Postcards, Email
Author: Esther Milne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-02-27
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1135177473

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In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other’s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor’s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence.

Tarot Leaves

Tarot Leaves
Author: Beth Seilonen
Publisher: Red Feather
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9780764339035

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Explore the Tarot through the beauty of nature as seen in images drawn within the silhouettes of the Maple, Apple, Oak, and Birch leaves.Utilizing color to convey the meanings on 78 artistic Tarot cards, each card is represented by a leaf in which innovative images and symbols are hidden. Colorful and intricate, the leaf image overlaps the imagery message and vice versa. The magician phrase, "Now you see it; now you don't," surely applies as, with each reading, some images are noticed and seem to "pop" from the leaf, while other symbols are overlooked to be seen at another time. Enjoy the simple beauty of nature as you explore the roots of Tarot. Includes cards and book.

My Bookstore

My Bookstore
Author: Ronald Rice
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0316362190

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In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes. In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it's the author's local store that supported him during the early days of his career, that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers, and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works. My Bookstore collects the essays, stories, odes and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 81 pieces written by our most beloved authors. It's a joyful, industry-wide celebration of our bricks-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops. Perfectly charming line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each storefront and other distinguishing features of the shops.

Love, Agnes

Love, Agnes
Author: Irene Latham
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512439932

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In California, Agnes, a giant Pacific octopus, pens a series of postcards to strangers from both above and below the pier.

60 Postcards

60 Postcards
Author: Rachael Chadwick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 147113430X

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The heartfelt and uplifting story of how a project to scatter 60 Postcards in memory of her mother helped a young girl come to terms with her loss. On 11 February 2012 Rachael Chadwick lost her Mother to cancer, just sixteen days after first being diagnosed, and her world shattered right in front of her. Utterly fed up of the milestones and reminders, in December of that year she decided she would do something different and created a project based around her Mum's approaching 60th Birthday. Desperate to spread the word about the wonderful person she had lost, Rachael had the brainwave of leaving notes around a city in her memory. Deciding she would take it a step further she wondered what would happen if she could ask people to respond to her? Full of hope and energy she hand-wrote sixty postcards, each with her email address at the bottom asking the finder to get in touch. But one question remained, where should she go? Knowing how much she longed to visit Paris, the last gift that Rachael's mum had given her was Eurostar vouchers, and so it seemed fitting that this would be her chosen city. So off she went with a group of friends to celebrate, discover, and to scatter her memories. Filling their time in Paris with sight-seeing, food and drink, laughter, and of course postcards. When Rachael returned to her London home, she desperately tried to switch off, switch off from the wondering (and hoping) whether she might actually hear from a postcard finder. And then, they started flowing in…

Postcards

Postcards
Author: Elizabeth Maddrey
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781947525122

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