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Title: |
Reason and Lovelessness |
| Sub-title: |
Essays, Encounters, Reviews 1980–2017 |
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| By (author): |
Barry Hill |
| ISBN10-13: |
1925377261 : 9781925377262 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
245x170mm |
| Pages: |
512 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - March 2018 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, history, biography, fiction and reportage. This collection of essays, variously published in Australia, India and London, includes â satellitesâ of his major worksâ such as Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literary biography on Aboriginal and frontier poetics; and Peacemongers (2014), a pilgrimage book about Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi in the years leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other essays are new: â Brechtâ s Songâ , on his working-class mother; â Dark Starâ , an expansion of his meeting with Christina Stead on her 80th birthday; â Loving Roughneckâ , his critical appreciation of John Berger; and â On the Edge of the Cliffâ , on his private meeting with the Dalai Lama in the Blue Mountains. As has been the case with his book-length works, Hillâ s essays collected here are ground-breaking: freshly, deeply researched, genre-crossing, multi-disciplinary, combining the candidly personal with the philosophical. |
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This wonderful, mysterious and compelling collection of essays prompts us to consider Barry Hill's unusual place in Australian letters... The essays are like jewels in a necklace, each glistening with its own beauty but together making something of greater elegance. -- Tom Griffiths
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A rich gift. Thirty two invitations to share the speculative adventures, in friendships, in family, in the world of politics and moral and spiritual commitment, of 'a man in his wholeness, wholly attending'. An extraordinary revelation of the considered life. -- David Malouf
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Reason, as passionate analysis and the higher Reason of moral law, runs through this astonishing collection of essays as a lifeline cast to us in a loveless world bereft of justice. At last we have the proper lens for getting Barry Hill into focus: so varied and extensive is his accomplishment as a writer--in poetry, fiction, social and cultural history, and criticism--that we need this book to gather together in one place an adequate reflection of all that achievement. This is 'Man Thinking', in Emerson's phrase--the work of a finely honed intellect and a capacious spirit--that educates us in the full range of our humanity. Like DH Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, and John Berger--all of whom he writes about cogently--Hill shows how a life of writing is a life of thinking, when both the mind and the heart are animated by love and by reason. -- Paul Kane, Vassar College
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These are intimate, stylish essays. This collection showcases Barry Hill's remarkable intellectual curiosity and erudition. From questions of belonging and attachment, to global challenges of survival, belief and knowledge, Barry unflinchingly pushes through new frontiers to reveal, with passion and precision, new ways of seeing and feeling. -- Julianne Schultz, Griffith Review
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