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Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space. Hunt questions our intellectual and aesthetic understanding of gardens and designed landscapes and asks how these sites affect us emotionally. Do gardens have meaning? When we visit a fine garden or designed landscape, we experience a unique work of great complexity in purpose, which has been executed over a number of years—a work that, occasionally, achieves beauty. While direct experience is fundamental, Hunt demonstrates how the ways in which gardens and landscapes are communicated in word and image can be equally important. He returns frequently to a cluster of key sites and writings on which he has based much of his thinking about garden-making and its role in landscape architecture: the gardens of Rousham in Oxfordshire; Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770); William Gilpin's dialogues on Stowe (1747); Alexander Pope's meditation on genius loci; the Désert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
This biographical drama tells the story of Robert Frost's life, primarily using his own words and works. In 'Frost' Robert Frost has come back to life and stepped onto the stage in all of his former glory. He takes the reader with him on a journey of discovery as we share his triumphs and failures, his loves and hates, and most of all his insecurities and arrogance. Whether you already love Robert Frost's poetry, or you are only vaguely aware of his work, you'll come away understanding the man and his life's work. Playwright William Roetzheim has won awards that include winning or finalist in 'Best Books' National Poetry Anthology of the Year and Poetry Book of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; Faulkner Society Poetry Award, Oberon Prize, and the Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction.