Wintering

A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in Winterin

Poetry. Native American Studies. A handwritten court record offers a forgotten name, a baby cries in the archive: In WINTERING, her second collection of poems, Megan Snyder-Camp composes a disruptive,

In the winter of 1885-86, western Kansas cattle ranges, over-stocked and drought-ridden, endured a series of storms as snow and heavy winds hit the Central Plains. When spring came, some cattle had su

"WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON IS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE. . . . PLEASE, GOD, LET WILL LIVE. AND, PLEASE, GOD, FORGIVE ME." All Will Ames ever wanted to do was farm. But when he's injured in a farm acc

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity.

The new season begins. The geese return... Selected as a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times ; The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a

A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in Winterin

WINTERING ON THE BAYOU SALADE- This is a true story of a man who after a lifetime of being physically, emotionally, financially and psychologically abused for not adhering to the oppressive radical te

This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath’s feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes—the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in whic

獻給每個生命中的冬期║Barnes & Noble年度圖書獎║人的一生免不了要度冬，此時我們最需要的，是像樹那樣安安靜靜長出自己的離層，讓枯葉脫落。每個人都要學習度冬，像自然界的萬物一樣，在能量變得稀薄的時候，深深縮起來，等陽光再度充沛時，自然而然便能煥發新生。度冬期是一段寒冷的季節，可能來自疾病、喪親、失業、關係崩解，也可能只是一段漫長而難以言說的失落狀態。那是被世界隔絕的時刻，是生命被迫休耕的階段：我們感覺被拒絕、被邊緣化，被阻斷前行的道路，或被推入局外人的角色。個人只能站在邊界，進入一片黑暗而未知的過渡地帶。在《度冬》中，英國作家凱瑟琳‧梅深入探索這段生命低谷的經驗，並援引文學、神話與自然現象，重新定義隨冬天而來的黑暗、孤獨與枯萎──它並非單純的低潮或終結，而是萬物休養生息的過程，其中蘊藏著自然的智慧。她提出：若快樂是一種能力，那麼悲傷也是。我們被教導要忽略悲傷，但在長大成人後，往往必須重新學會聽懂悲傷的清晰呼喚。這就是度冬。這是一種主動接納悲傷的態度，是允許自己把悲傷視為一種需要去感受。書中，她在冰島的藍湖、芬蘭桑拿的高熱裡尋回身體的感知；她探訪北方趨近永夜之地，並透過靜默與睡眠，找回一種被現代生活驅逐的自然節律。凱瑟琳以凱爾特傳統中的薩溫節為例──一個世界變暗、邊界變薄的時刻，說明人們如何靠火光、儀式與歌來穿越冬季的恐懼與未知；她回顧中世紀的鬼故事與現代的萬聖節習俗，指出冬天同時是「死亡」與「再生」的交界，是與過去和未來對話的臨界空間。《度冬》不僅與個人療癒有關，也是一場文化與精神的探問，個人對古老集體意識的呼求，讓我們看到，由古至今，人類在面對未知的時刻，向來是以文化及想像來抵抗恐懼。然而，現代社會已失去與黑暗共存的能力，睡眠與夜晚曾是生命修復的空間，如今卻成為焦慮匯聚的所在──度冬教我們重新拾回黑夜的庇護，允許靈魂沉入更深層的夢境與意識。《度冬》是一部緩慢的生活探索札記。凱瑟琳‧梅以一種近乎世俗神祕主義的聲音提醒我們，冬天並非生命的盡頭，而是循環的一部分。而低潮、失落與黑暗，不需要被立即走出，而是需要被理解、聆聽，甚至珍惜。度冬是在黑暗中學習等待，是允許自己以尚未成形的樣子靜靜蟄伏。║Barnes & Noble年度圖書獎║人的一生免不了要度冬，此時我們最需要的，是像樹那樣安安靜靜長出自己的離層，讓枯葉脫落。每個人都要學習度冬，像自然界