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Remembering the Alchemists & other essays

Name: Remembering the Alchemists & other essays
Brand: Richard Hoffman
SKU: 9781734517767
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Contributors:

Richard Hoffman

Publisher:

Richard Hoffman

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, History, Literary Collections

Book Subcategory:

Survival, Essays

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Release Date:

2023-01-15

ISBN 13:

9781734517767

Weight:

0.88 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inches

Pages:

270

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Remembering the Alchemists is an intense, passionate, and moving collection of personal essays that never loses sight of the moral issues it raises. At times thoughtful and wise and at other times a cri de coeur, it is held together by the experienced voice of an essayist at the top of his game. Richard Hoffman speaks softly, even reverently, in the presence of art and the natural world, but addressing militarism, war, and violence against children, he writes with urgency and earnest questioning. Several of these essays ask how it is that we seem to have given up on ourselves, and what it might take to turn the cascading traumas of history into compassion for one another and lessons for the future. In this award-winning poet's fourth book of prose, sentences can open into reverie or stop you in your tracks. Whether he is writing about a painting, the work of another writer, a tree that grew in front of his boyhood home, the atrocities visited upon children, the superstructure of exploitation and oppression, or the responsibility to be "good ancestor," Hoffman pleads with us to move beyond familiar tropes and assumptions and relinquish a learned despondency that ensures a future of more wars, ongoing injustice, and stifled potential. He transforms personal experience not into "the universal," that categorical abstraction, but into the public, the civic, the ethically useful. These seventeen essays aspire to do more than diagnose our current malaise; they attempt to lift us from it, to clarify our situation, to encourage and inspire. Although Hoffman's candor can at times be shocking, the beauty, intelligence, and bracing clarity of his vision challenges readers to meet the demands of our historical moment with confidence. Insisting that no conclusions are foregone, Remembering the Alchemists is ultimately a book about what it means to hope, to have faith, to see clearly and still insist on joy.

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