Patricia Hampl
Författare till The Florist's Daughter
Om författaren
Patricia Hampl is Regents' Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Verk av Patricia Hampl
Pilgrim (in Granta: Jubilee - JACK) 1 exemplar
It's Come to This 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 201 exemplar
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1946-03-12
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Bostadsorter
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Minnesota (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Yrken
- poet
university professor
essayist - Organisationer
- University of Minnesota
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2001)
MacArthur Fellowship (1990)
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
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Caroline_McElwee | 8 andra recensioner | Nov 7, 2023 |
Caroline_McElwee | 8 andra recensioner | Nov 7, 2023 | 
Hempl writes memoir with the artistic flair of fiction. Her poignant account of her mother's passing includes detailed descriptions of St. Paul neighborhoods, her father's work as a florist, her own desire to reach beyond "the middle" of everything.
A historian friend loaned this title to me. After reading it I'm sure that the writer's clever weaving of time and place must be why she recommended it.
A historian friend loaned this title to me. After reading it I'm sure that the writer's clever weaving of time and place must be why she recommended it.
This is another book I read years ago, and now cannot recall what it was like.
Hampl helped me recall my feelings of how I could see the advantages of becoming a contemplative, without ever wanting that kind of life for myself. Her journey kept me reading.
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This is also a memoir about her life, her ancestry, the things of import to her.
Along side this she explores the capacity to be solitary together, within a relationship, and talks out loud to her departed husband with whom she sat for many years across the yellow table. So as well as solitude, there is an acknowledgement of loss. An acknowledgement of a continued conversation.… (mer)