Field Work Notes

Poetry. "In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel's among ye taking notes. David Hadbawnik like James Boswell has a knack for capturing all the things we wish we had said, as well as the street ta

本書以日記形式描繪十一歲的 Peter Lee，在一個夏天面對夢想動搖與家中變化的心情。Peter 原本一心想成為古生物學家，計畫中的恐龍考察卻意外失望收場，連心裡最珍惜的願望都像是被風吹散。更令他不安的是，最親近的奶奶 Hammy 生病了，家人卻避而不談，讓他和妹妹 L.B. 在猜測與不確定中摸索前行。在這個不太如意的夏天，Peter 重新拾起筆記本，用觀察、推理與實驗的方式理解身邊的變化，也試著用自己的方式陪伴家人。他或許還不確定未來要走向哪裡，但在記錄與思考之間，他看見了自己能做的事，以及維繫家人的力量。以短篇日記形式呈現，易讀流暢結合幽默與家庭關係的細膩描寫描繪孩子面對夢想與現實落差的真實心情Eleven-year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. But in one summer, that all falls apart. Told in short, accessible journal entries and combining the humor of Timmy Failure with the poignant family dynamics of Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Peter Lee will win readers' hearts. Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust.Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perh

From his remarkable debut in 1966, Seamus Heaney pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. This col

Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize."In FIELD WORK, Sarah Estes accomplishes that remarkable trick the best poets have mastered: to fully embody and give voice to the

Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding “an early warning sys

A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation,

A series of diary entries. Marginalia from Pausanias's description of Greece. A nineteenth century ledger. Postcards from China. What do these ostensibly unrelated things have in common? Little or not