Adirondack Portraits
A Piece of Time
Syracuse University Press · Print & ebook · September 1, 1986
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- Who it’s for
- Poems and prose pieces revisit Adirondack hardship, settlement, and Jeanne Robert Foster’s early life.
- Themes
- Wilderness and settlement, Hardship and isolation, Recovering a vanished time
- Pacing
- Reflective
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Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains’ relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970).
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Born in poverty in the Adirondacks, as a young woman she emerged in the center of the literary and artistic circles of her day, an associate of Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the Yeatses, father and son. Adirondack Portraits gives us a glimpse into the early life of Jeanne and some of the influences that helped her step from a harsh physical existence into the unforgettable world of New York, Paris, and London in the 1920s. Above all, her poems and prose pieces are, in the words of Alfred Kazin, ?an attempt to recover a vanished time, to record with love and admiration and enduring wonder a life of hardship, endless exertion, and perhaps above all, the kind of isolation that used to dominate country life in America.?
Adirondack Settlement
Poems and prose pieces revisit Adirondack hardship, settlement, and Jeanne Robert Foster’s early life.
Come here for
- Poems and prose about Adirondack wilderness and settlement
- A glimpse of Jeanne Robert Foster’s early life
Expect
- The literary and artistic circles Foster entered as a young woman
- A portrait of country life shaped by hardship and isolation
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 36% |
|---|---|
| American Poetry | 33% |
| Place Poetry | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Middle Atlantic History
- Women Authors Collections
- Nature Poetry
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Jeanne Robert Foster, Noel Riedinger-Johnson
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Published
- September 1, 1986
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wilderness and settlement · Hardship and isolation · Recovering a vanished time
- Reading lane
- Middle Atlantic History