“jason carson wilson”

The pen's power is intoxicating. Jason Carson Wilson has used that power to ensure the public's right to know. But in Power of the Pen: Poems and Pontifications, Wilson uses this power to share observations on everything from teachers to the press.... More

Wilson explores this contradictory and culturally rich city by tracing its development from remote ranching settlement to modern metropolis. Taking landmarks as starting points for a journey of discovery, he looks at the events, people, and writing that have shaped modern Buenos Aires and its cultur... More

Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and... More

"Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face." These words, inseparably marryi... More

The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted... More

This collection of travel articles includes contributions written by writers such as Bill Buford and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and range across myriads from New York's Central Park to to the Saharan Mauritania.The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, g... More

This third volume in the series presents more exemplars of armchair reading (in this case, armchair listening), taking people away from daily routine to exotic, often remote settings.The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscan... More

A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects not... More