{"product_id":"field-light-summer-end-the-dormouse-glendale-massachusetts-1991-2018-paperback","title":"Field Light: Summer End-The Dormouse, Glendale, Massachusetts, 1991-2018 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOwen Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eField Light, written as an extended, multi-sectioned poem that moves in and out of prose, is a personal and historical exploration of the Berkshires through poetry and prose. Physician-poet Owen Lewis becomes a figure in his own epic as he learns to see himself and the abounding history that lives in the towns of western Massachusetts. From the writers Hawthorne, Melville, nearby Stanley Kunitz, Chris Gilbert and others, to artists Daniel Chester French, his daughter Peggy Cresson and Norman Rockwell, from the young lawyer Theodor Sedgwick who undertook a trial in 1781 to free Elizabeth Mumbet ending slavery in Massachusetts, to civil rights champion W.E.B. Du Bois, to Arlo Guthrie, to physician Austen Riggs and his psychiatric hospital, to Gertrude Smith and the founding of Tanglewood, Field Light investigates layered histories to create a compelling cultural, political and social narrative, with its cycles of privilege and racism, that continues to unfold. It is the story of finding one's voice amid many voices, and the importance of the community of voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSAMPLE: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(1991)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn rain, I first saw the house, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshingled in Dormouse gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough streaked windows \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof wavering glass its fields wild, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpenetrable November\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweather raising a dog's musty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory-scent, others' histories, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot a New York smell inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Underfoot, a wall-to-wall patch-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework of multi-colored carpet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eremnants covering up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe old chestnut floors, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe toddlers each chose \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea carpet square as home-base.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI heard the agent say-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo ghosts!-\u003c\/em\u003ebut overhead \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equick-clicking ceiling feet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escamper the attic, red squirrels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand gray racing the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the eaves flying-squirrels \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejumping into the mist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923748225331,"sku":"9781948017718","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Fr8w7vXGkW9781948017718.webp?v=1793825634","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/field-light-summer-end-the-dormouse-glendale-massachusetts-1991-2018-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}