Children of Grass
Children of Grass

Author: B. A. Van Sise

Publisher: Schaffner Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943156825

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"With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to Walt Whitman--of whom Van Sise is a relative--and his masterpiece, "Leaves of Grass," during this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass, will, as a contemporary homage to Whitman, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country."--Publisher's website.

Lost in River of Grass
Lost in River of Grass

Author: Ginny Rorby

Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1467731676

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"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . ." A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren’t exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an air boat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive.

Who Is Hiding in the Grass?
Who Is Hiding in the Grass?

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Publisher: White Star Kids

Published: 2017-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788854411470

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This single-page concertina style book is designed to be viewed with the double-sided page fully unfolded (2 meters in length) to share a detailed presentation of the world of insects living within a grassy lawn; one side of the page contains a detailed lawn-level illustration of insect life and the other side contains illustrated text discussing common insects and their behavior.

A Child's Garden of Grass -- Reloaded
A Child's Garden of Grass -- Reloaded

Author: Richard Clorfene

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781541011731

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The all-time marijuana classic, revised and reprinted for the first time in 50 years....and more hilarious than ever! When you finish this book, you will know all there is to know about the use of the marijuana from buying it to cleaning it to rolling it in a joint to smoking it and getting high on it and realizing that there may be, after all, a point to existence. Included are the following subjects: Grass as an Aphrodisiac Games Stoned People Play Acquiring Grass How to enhance the power of Grass The Morality of Grass "A wealth of off-beat tips for many readers - especially non-users - the greater value lies in the pleasant, almost grass-like aura that the authors produce. Their low key approach and refusal to take grass too seriously help support their main contention: that grass should be no big deal." - Time Magazine

Civilising Grass
Civilising Grass

Author: Jonathan Cane

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1776143124

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Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of ‘natural’ environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life, is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavic. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors – thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South African society past and present.

Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

Author: Peter O. Arnds

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781571132871

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In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these "asocials," for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that through intertextuality with the European fairy-tale tradition, the picaresque novels of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, and through an array of carnivalesque figures Grass creates an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a Stunde Null, that putative tabula rasa of 1945."--BOOK JACKET.