Blackberries in the Dreamhouse
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Blackberries in the Dreamhouse by Diane Frank
What would happen to us if we were to undertake the discipline of turning our life entirely and self-consciously into a poem? Through Yukiko, who becomes both a contemplative Buddhist and a geisha skilled in the refinements of sensuous pleasure, Diane Frank allows us to live within the soul of a young woman who has undertaken to create a life imagined and expressed as a poem, in every moment, waking and sleeping, making love or meditating. With its power of language, Blackberries in the Dream House will seduce many readers into considering whether a prosaic life is the only choice we have. Pierre DeLattre Author of Walking on Air and Tales of a Dalai Lama Diane Frank's exquisite sensibility manifests throughout in Blackberries in the Dream House; it is both erotic and metaphysical. In fact, her great strength is that for her there's no division between the two. The result is this fine lyrical novel. Stephen Dunn Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Frank, Diane: - Diane Frank trekked four hundred miles in the Nepal Himalayas and wrote most of LETTERS FROM A SACRED MOUNTAIN PLACE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE NEPAL HIMALAYAS sitting on boulders on the trails and by a kerosene lamp at night. She is author of seven books of poems, including Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines, Entering the Word Temple, Swan Light, and The Winter Life of Shooting Stars. Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, won the Chelson Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She is editor of the bestselling anthology, River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century. She has written documentaries on Eastern and Sacred Art for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Maxwell Museum in Arizona. She teaches writing workshops at San Francisco State University and Dominican University, leads workshops for young writers as a Poet in the School, and directs the Blue Light Press On-line Poetry Workshop. She plays cello in the Golden Gate Symphony and likes to create her life as an art form.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781887472685 |
| ISBN 10 | 1887472681 |
| Title | Blackberries in the Dreamhouse |
| Author | Diane Frank |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sunstar Publishing (IA) |
| Year published | 2002-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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