{"title":"Lewis Hyde","description":"LEWIS HYDE is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes This World; Common as Air; A Primer on Forgetting; and a book of poems, This Error is the Sign of Love. He has also published two volumes of translations of Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre's poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde was the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing at Kenyon College until his retirement in 2018. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman.","products":[{"product_id":"the-gift-how-the-creative-spirit-transforms-the-world-paperback","title":"The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If you want to write, paint, sing, compose, act, or make films, read \u003ci\u003eThe Gift.\u003c\/i\u003e\" --from the Introduction by Margaret Atwood \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time and a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society--governed by the marketplace--is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists' work. He shows us that another way is possible: the alternative economy of \u003ci\u003ethe gift\u003c\/i\u003e, which allows creations and ideas to circulate freely, rather than hoarding them as commodities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating and transformative, \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of originality and insight--an essential book for anyone who has ever given or received a work of art.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377627431135,"sku":"9781984897787","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Hfc3QPfdxF9781984897787.webp?v=1789236228"},{"product_id":"a-primer-for-forgetting-getting-past-the-past-paperback","title":"A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of our true superstars of nonfiction\" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear--be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness--but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Primer for Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrickster Makes This World\u003c\/i\u003e. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author's own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, \u003ci\u003eA Primer for Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377635164383,"sku":"9781250619532","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rsHL1iH2Yh9781250619532.webp?v=1789236249"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lewis-hyde.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}