Lorenzo In Taos

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865345945
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lorenzo in Taos," is written loosely in the form of letters to and from D.H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence, Robinson Jeffers, and Luhan. The book is a highly personal and most informative account of an intense relationship with a great writer.

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720797
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Place written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift—and to destroy.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611391377
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of "being nobody in myself," despite years of psychoanalysis and a luxurious lifestyle on two continents among the leading literary, art and intellectual personalities of the day. "Winter in Taos" unfolds in an entirely different pattern, uncluttered with noteworthy names and ornate details. With no chapters dividing the narrative, Luhan describes her simple life in Taos, New Mexico, this "new world" she called it, from season to season, following a thread that spools out from her consciousness as if she's recording her thoughts in a journal. "My pleasure is in being very still and sensing things," she writes, sharing that pleasure with the reader by describing the joys of adobe rooms warmed in winter by aromatic cedar fires; fragrant in spring with flowers; and scented with homegrown fruits and vegetables being preserved and pickled in summer. Having wandered the world, Luhan found her home at last in Taos. "Winter in Taos" celebrates the spiritual connection she established with the "deep living earth" as well as the bonds she forged with Tony Luhan, her "mountain." This moving tribute to a land and the people who eked a life from it reminds readers that in northern New Mexico, where the seasons can be harshly beautiful, one can bathe in the sunshine until "'untied are the knots in the heart,' for there is nothing like the sun for smoothing out all difficulties." Born in 1879 to a wealthy Buffalo family, Mabel Dodge Luhan earned fame for her friendships with American and European artists, writers and intellectuals and for her influential salons held in her Italian villa and Greenwich Village apartments. In 1917, weary of society and wary of a world steeped in war, she set down roots in remote Taos, New Mexico, then publicized the tiny town's inspirational beauty to the world, drawing a steady stream of significant guests to her adobe estate, including artist Georgia O'Keeffe, poet Robinson Jeffers, and authors D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Luhan could be difficult, complex and often cruel, yet she was also generous and supportive, establishing a solid reputation as a patron of the arts and as an author of widely read autobiographies. She died in Taos in 1962.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461702461
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D.H. Lawrence written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in France after the scandalous publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, revealing Lawrence's complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction. Through intensive research and access to unpublished essays and letters of Lawrence and his circle, Meyers describes the circumstances of his mother's death, the reason for the suppression of The Rainbow, and the author's protean (and extreme) sexuality that mirrored that of his fiction.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taos and Its Artists written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an essay about the artists in Taos, New Mexico: brief biographies, portraits, and samples of their work. [Luhan often invited artists and writers to Taos.].

Author : Lois Palken Rudnick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826325874
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mabel Dodge Luhan written by Lois Palken Rudnick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was "the most peculiar common denominator that society, literature, art and radical revolutionaries ever found in New York and Europe." So claimed a Chicago newspaper reporter in the 1920s of Mabel Dodge Luhan, who attracted leading literary and intellectual figures to her circle for over four decades. Not only was she mistress of a grand salon, an American Madame de Stael, she was also a leading symbol of the New Woman: sexually emancipated, self-determining, and in control of her destiny. In many ways, her life is the story of America's emergence from the Victorian age. Lois Rudnick has written a unique and definitive biography that examines all aspects of Mabel Dodge Luhan's real and imagined lives, drawing on fictional portraits of Mabel, including those by D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and Gertrude Stein, as well as on Mabel's own voluminous memoirs, letters, and fiction. Rudnick not only assesses Mabel as muse to men of genius but also considers her seriously as a writer, activist, and spirit of the age. This biography will appeal not just to cultural historians but to any woman who has loved and lived with men who are artists and rebels. Both as a liberated woman and as a legend, Mabel Dodge Luhan embodies the cultural forces that shaped modern America.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922491312
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intricate web of dependence, manipulation, and appropriation." - The New Yorker "Second Place owes a debt to Lorenzo in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan's 1932 memoir of the time D. H. Lawrence came to stay with her in Taos, New Mexico" - Rachel Cusk "It's the most serious 'confession' that ever came out of America and perhaps the most heart-destroying revelation of the American life-process that ever has or ever will be produced." - D.H Lawrence Written in direct address to the poet Robinson Jeffers, "Lorenzo in Taos" is dedicated "To Tony and All Indians," but Tony and the Indians are a sideshow. The memoir's raison d'être is the arrival of D.H Lawrence, whom Mabel has mystically "summoned" to Taos to articulate the beauty of the Indian way of life. When Lawrence is keener on depicting Mabel's romance with Tony, she does not object, framing it in symbolic terms. "Of course it was for this I had called him from across the world," she writes, "to give him the truth about America: the false, new, external America in the east, and the true, primordial, undiscovered America that was preserved, living, in the Indian bloodstream." She intends Lawrence to write a parable about her escape from a fallen civilization to an American Eden. From Luhan's first encounter with the Lawrences, which she reports as a "vibratory disturbance," Luhan and Frieda Lawrence are suspicious of one another. After Luhan wears a dressing gown to her first planning session with Lawrence, and listens sympathetically as he gripes about his wife ("the hateful, destroying female"), Frieda bans their one-on-one meetings, and Lawrence's novel is dropped. Their relationship, though, is just getting started. Over the course of "Lorenzo in Taos," Lawrence attends Hopi ceremonies, steals some plausibly-deniable physical contact with Luhan (fingers meeting under soap suds, thighs brushing on horseback), berates Tony, pelts Frieda with stones, and sagely advises Luhan's son to beat his new wife. He and Frieda are in and out of Taos - whenever Lawrence is absent, Luhan feels a "psychic emptiness." She loves him, gives him up, then can't leave him alone. He spreads the rumour that she attempted to seduce him, and promises to "destroy" her, then assures her that she's no longer his enemy, and that, even when she was, he "never really forsook" her. She sends him a letter ending their friendship, because "his core was treacherous." To him, she will always be, in Luhan's words, "that greatest living abomination, the dominating American woman."

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Not I, but the Wind..." written by Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of ""Not I, but the Wind..."" by Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Lois Palken Rudnick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826351212
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan written by Lois Palken Rudnick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her four-volume published memoir. Making the suppressed portions of Luhan’s memoirs available for the first time, well-known biographer and cultural critic Lois Rudnick examines Luhan’s life through the lenses of venereal disease, psychoanalysis, and sexology. She shows us a mover and shaker of the modern world whose struggles with identity, sexuality, and manic depression speak to the lives of many women of her era. Restricted at the behest of her family until the year 2000, Rudnick’s edition of these remarkable documents represents the culmination of more than thirty-five years of study of Luhan’s life, writings, lovers, friends, and Luhan’s social and cultural milieus in Italy, New York, and New Mexico. They open up new pathways to understanding late Victorian and early modern American and European cultures in the person of a complex woman who led a life filled with immense passion and pain.