Bøger af Alan Williamson

A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner. An engaging and astute reader and observer, Alan Williamson uses his poetic lens to examine the new connections, notably with the Far East, that have been forged in the West, but also the fear, anxiety, and sense of cultural vacancy that western artists have had to overcome in confronting their new landscape, much as the writers of the American Renaissance did a century earlier.Writing as a displaced easterner with significant western roots, Williamson looks at writers and poets such as Cather, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Jefferes, Silko, and Snyder, as well as artists such as the Yosemite painters, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Wayne Thiebaud, to show how, despite the inflated optimism of many western patriots, the work of these individuals relates to the anxieties suffered by their eastern predecessors. By revealing what he sees as the repetition of the evolution of American literature in the rise of western literature, Williamson provides us with a fresh vantage point from which we can appreciate western literature, art, and culture and simultaneously dismantle the literary war between East and West.A tribute to the author's lifelong engagement with a particular landscape and its writers, Westernness speaks to the general reader who is curious about his or her native place and relationship to it, as well as to scholars in literary and ecocritical studies.

Here is a book to satisfy directors and actors of Late Night or Lunchtime Theatre. 4PLAY provides excellent student workshop and performance material and can be an exciting source for budding cinema students. Each of the plays has won awards and been performed in both professional and amateur theatre. Alan Williamson has had his many one-act plays produced in New Zealand, Australia, The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.

The book begins with deaths: chiefly the poet's mother's, but also those of cherished mentors and friends. Poems explore living beyond those deaths and approaching old age, and then do some traveling. Williamson takes a pilgrimage to Japan and India, inspired by his practice of Zen meditation, and placed under the aegis of a saying from the great Rinzai Zen monastery at Daitoku-ji: "If you cannot endure this moment, what can you endure?" A theme then becomes enduring the public moment, with all its griefs and opportunities for growth. The reader is then transported with the poet to Italy. In 2000, Williamson began visiting Tuscany regularly, and eventually became a property owner there. The poems set in Italy dwell on an encounter with old culture, and its potential to encourage both resignation and mysticism, with moods that persist from the tutelary geniuses of two great Italian poets: the nihilistic Leopardi and the tentatively mystical Montale. Gathering around those experiences multiple lore from music, philosophy and science, it becomes an extended meditation on mental suffering, glimpses of the ecstatic, and the double nature of our life, "skull / and beatific face," with "the immortal recombinants of fire and water."

Think Like a CTO is full of step-by-step guidance for succeeding as a Chief Technology Officer. Author Alan Williamson has mentored numerous CTOs who have been catapulted into the big leagues by private equity investment, acquisition, and rapid growth. In this book, he shares his hard-won lessons on how to survive and thrive in the fast-paced role. Inside you'll find practical frameworks for solving common challenges, including conducting bias-free interviewing, setting up meaningful performance reviews, and establishing teams built around a clear charter of responsibilities. Each chapter explores real scenarios CTOs face and includes the invaluable advice of veteran CTOs, recruitment specialists, and other industry experts. Harness the advice and tools in this book, and you'll soon be making data-driven decisions and putting your own brand of leadership on your CTO role.

A psychological approach to Dante, based on the Jungian concept of the night journey.

Alan Williamson's beautiful Love and the Soul explores the vicissitudes of desire with eloquence and subtlety. Few contemporary poets have dissected either psyche or eros so truthfully, so incisively--and so poignantly.

Williamson examines Robert Lowell's poetic expression of his discontent with American civilization.

This text challenges both feminist orthodoxy and men's movement thinking to show how several important male writers have drawn creative strength from their identification with, even envy of, a positive image of the feminine. Writers covered include D.H. Lawrence and Cesare Pavese.