Bøger af Rob Hardy

Here is the true story of Rob Hardy, who in the 1960's was attempting to escape from an abusive father and street gangs. Lured by the trapping of Marine dress blues, he joined the United States Marine Corps. Get into formation and let Rob Hardy, take you on his first of two tours of duty: "From the Streets of Chicago, to the Jungles of Vietnam."

This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck¿s fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck¿s thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck¿s case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck¿s fiction deserves to be considered alongside that ofwriters such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book¿s central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States.

Poems from a pandemic year, including "Letter," winner of Third Wednesday Magazine's 50/50 Poetry Contest. Inspired by daily walks in the prairie and woods, and tracking the progress of the seasons and the anxieties and unexpected wonders of a challenging year, this collection moves from darkness to light and offers hope in a difficult time.

In Domestication, collected poems (1996-2016), Rob Hardy brings together the wide range of gifts that place him among the few whose common touch makes them exceptional. In work that is at once accessible, enjoyable, and wonderfully well-made Hardy shows, without pretentious display, that poetry is not an outsider's cryptic game. His poems demonstrate what Henry David Thoreau teaches: That profundity may best be found in simplicity. Hardy gracefully combines his deep knowledge of the ancient classics and his wide interest in scientific learning with his first-hand experience of nature and human relationships. When "An early thaw tempts the earth into expectation," he writes, "birds modulate into spring." As we read his work we are modulated into the renewals our varied seasons of life require. For good reasons, Hardy was appointed official Poet Laureate of the city of Northfield, Minnesota. Emilio DeGrazia Author of A Canticle of Bread and Stones, and most recently, Eye Shadow (Rocket Science Press, 2014).

This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck¿s fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck¿s thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck¿s case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck¿s fiction deserves to be considered alongside that of writers such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book¿s central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States.

The essence of Aeschylus's famous trilogy in a single play that speaks forcefully to today's audiences. In lean, lyrical poetry, Rob Hardy's adaptation highlights all the glory of the original:With a foreword, an introduction, notes, and figures. Called "masterful" by Thomas Van Nortwick, professor of classics (emeritus), Oberlin College.Rob Hardy is a Minnesota poet and classicist who has published poems and essays in a wide range of publications.