Robert Pack.:Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems.
- signed or inscribed book 2008, ISBN: 9780226644059
Paperback, Hardcover
New York: Villard Books, 2008. CC4 - A 2nd printing hardcover book SIGNED by author in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light d… More...
New York: Villard Books, 2008. CC4 - A 2nd printing hardcover book SIGNED by author in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Humorous and deeply moving, Izzy & Lenore is a story of a man confronting his past, embracing the blessings of his current life, and rediscovering the meaning of friendship, family, and faith. 8.5"x5.75", 198 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Villard Books, 2008, 3, Skits by Graphic Arts Department, Frederick High School, Frederick, MDA. S. Coghill, Braddock Heights, MDGraphic Arts Department, Frederick High School, Frederick, MDCopyright 5/8/1984Paperback5.3 x 8.5 inches, 48 pagesFrederick High School (FHS) is a four-year public high school in Frederick, Maryland, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. A National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, Frederick High is the oldest school in Frederick County, the school's diverse population reflects its surrounding dynamic community. Frederick High School opened in 1891 with girls and boys attending school in different buildings and matriculation occurring after three years. The current facility opened in 1939. The school serves the city of Frederick along with Governor Thomas Johnson High School and Tuscarora High School.Fredrick High School is one of the most diverse high schools in Western Maryland ----------------------------Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy.An individual comedy sketch is a brief scene or vignette of the type formerly used in vaudeville, and now used widely in comedy and variety shows, talk shows and some children's television series (such as Sesame Street). Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, including Mad and Right Now Kapow.Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation.Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where a large number of brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme.In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as Beyond the Fringe and A Clump of Plinths (which evolved into Cambridge Circus), to radio, with such shows as It's That Man Again and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, then to television, with such shows as Not only... But Also, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Not the Nine O'Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.There is also the Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada created by Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, under the stage name Chespirito, transmitted in Mexico between 1968 and 1973 that created famous characters like El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado and other character like Los Caquitos, Dr. Chapatín and Los Chifladitos.Historically, the sketches tended to be unrelated, but more recent groups have introduced overarching themes that connect the sketches within a particular show, with recurring characters that return for more than one appearance. Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show; The Family from The Carol Burnett Show; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums. The idea of running characters was taken a stage further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered on the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively.In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of The Second City in Chicago and Toronto.Notable contemporary American stage sketch comedy groups include The Second City, the Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings and the cast of Saturday Night Live., Graphic Arts Department, Frederick High School, Frederick, MD, 1984, 3, London: Guild Publishing, 1987. First hardback edition thus. Fine/Fine. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. 240 pages including index. Over 9.5" by 8". Lavishly illustrated in colour. ., London: Guild Publishing, 1987, 0, Chicago, IL The University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover First Edition; First Printing indicated. First Edition; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Very Good DJ: The Book shows only the former bookseller's rubber-stamped logo at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. DJ shows indications of very careful use, but there is one inch chip at the top of the rear hinge and two tiny, closed tears; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. A New book in a mildly worn, but flawed DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 302pp. Hardback with DJ. "Poetry," wrote Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science." Robert Pack's new book is a heady mixture of the finer spirit. A selection from his last five books, along with a collection of new poems, Fathering the Map takes us from the personal reflections distilled in the lyrics of Waking to My Name (1980) to the worldly reckonings of Inheritance (1992) and back again. In the dramatic monologues of Faces in a Single Tree (1984), in the narrative of a wayward life from womb to double ending in Clayfield Rejoices, Clayfield Laments (1987), in a cosmic tour conducted by the physicist Heinz Pagels with Before It Vanishes (1990), Pack has fashioned poems of intimate experience, scientific meditations, philosophical wonder, poems that breathe the knowledge of man and woman, young and old, artist and human animal. Pack's work has won the acclaim of writers, critics, and readers from Robert Penn Warren to Cynthia Ozick to Stephen Jay Gould, who comments that the "precious contacts of science and poetry are now sadly rare, but Bob Pack revitalizes the ancient union with incisive poems that sing with lyricism or bite with insight—but always seem to add wisdom to the scientist's epigram." "The poet improves his style and spirit as he extends his reach," Howard Nemerov has written, and in his new work Pack reaches back to some of his earliest memories, and so forward to a personal mythology that circles from the primal instant to the present ecological crisis. "Robert Pack's poetry is deeply rooted in his won family life," Richard Wilbur has remarked, "and yet his imagination has always included us all." Cynthia Ozick has said of Pack's poetry: "We rejoice as we read.", The University of Chicago Press, 1993., 0<
