Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557288257)

From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). After an exceptional apprenticeship in Rome, Hosmer opened a studio there where she was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and the Brownings. Though some of her work survives today, much of it has disappeared. Oles rediscovers Hosmer's life in Waking Stone. This is a dialogue, an exploration of what Oles calls their "parallel universes." In beautiful and affecting lyric and narrative poems, some in Hosmer's voice, some in her own, Oles bends time and circumstances to reveal the essential kinship between two women artists. Oles keeps readers moving through Hosmer's story, with its flashes of delight, anger, mischief, and triumph, as well as through Oles's life and time, speaking imaginatively to young women about cutting themselves with razor blades, and to older women about suffering disfiguring treatments for breast cancer.

Author: Carole Simmons Oles
ISBN-10: 1557288259
ISBN-13: 9781557288257
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.68w x 0.34d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended