Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society

Gathers critical essays about Ginsberg's early works, major poems, essential themes, and public image

Poems deal with love, death, work, nature, grief, pleasure, human frailty, emotion, and experience

Product Description: Lee Mingwei's simple yet elegant installations provide a stage for interpersonal exchange around ordinary human events or activities -- admiring an object, making conversation, or writing a letter to a friend or family member. His past installations such as "The Dining Project "and "The Letter-Writing Project" are explored along with a recent project developed while an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum called "The Living Room...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition, presents thirteen of the author's essays, including 'Walking' and 'Civil Disobedience.'

Product Description: Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology...read more

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic study examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society, in a volume that features a new preface and afterword. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Lewis Hyde turns to America’s founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination...read more

Product Description: Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Lewis Hyde turns to America’s Founding Fathers—men such as Adams, Madison, and Jefferson—in search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination...read more