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书名： 《The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson》
作者： Emily Dickinson
简介： Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic,
outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties
she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room
in her father's house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely
without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at
age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her
lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately
recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one
day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English
language. Dickinson's poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional
and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in
theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape
of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with
conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual
metaphors—techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinson's
idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations
about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established
her as one of America's true poetic geniuses.
推荐理由： 不屈不挠再来推荐诗集。诗人内向害羞，只在她的诗里倾述著她对自然界与人生所有的内省、观察和情感，敲响了读者灵魂的醒钟，并将诗带入了下一个阶段。Emily Dickinson的诗短小不隐诲，不外显勉强的形式，简单的字汇，与全人类都能体会理解的主题，让不常读诗或英语不是母语的朋友，也有机会欣赏英诗的美。诚挚向大家推荐一位伟大的诗人。
作者： Laura Hillenbrand
类别： 传记
简介： He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly
crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thorough/bred. But
looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his
heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural
icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner
Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that "the day of the
horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a man who "had cultivated an almost mystical
communication with horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck
when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube.
Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from early training
sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to "Horse of the
Year"--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes
the world of horseracing in the 1930s, from the snobbery of Eastern journalists
regarding Western horses and public fascination with the great thorough/breds
to the jockeys' torturous weight-loss regimens, including saunas in rubber suits,
strong purgatives, even tapeworms.
Along the way, Hillenbrand paints wonderful images: tears in Tom Smith's eyes
as his hero, legendary trainer James Fitzsimmons, asked to hold Seabiscuit's bridle
while the horse was saddled; critically injured Red Pollard, whose chest was crushed
in a racing accident a few weeks before, listening to the San Antonio Handicap
from his hospital bed, cheering "Get going, Biscuit! Get 'em, you old devil!"; Seabiscuit
happily posing for photographers for several minutes on end; other horses refusing
to work out with Seabiscuit because he teased and taunted them with his blistering
speed.
Though sometimes her prose takes on a distinctly purple hue ("His history had the
ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown snow"; "The California sunlight had the
pewter cast of a declining season"), Hillenbrand has crafted a delightful book. Wire
to wire, Seabiscuit is a winner. Highly recommended.
推荐理由： 他本该驰骋纵横享尽无限荣光。可偏偏天意弄人，致使只能湮没于市。
面对命运的不公，他没有低头，依靠着与伙伴的共同努力，历经曲折坎
坷，终于向世人证明了自己，迎来了属于自己的辉煌。（主人公不是人
类。）
这是20130529的打名帖的题目，到今天我还是认为我现在推荐的这本书才是正确的答案。本书
曾经被拍成电影「奔腾年代」，讲的是一只有著最高贵血统的赛马，只是因为身型瘦小，被
原主人当成一只驽马。不得志的「海饼乾」脾气暴躁不合群，幸好一群好伙伴看到他「不服
输的内心」，买下了他，让他终于在一场一场的比赛中创造了历史，并抚慰了在那个萧条年
代无数美国人的心灵。打名帖原本的答案「风之王」故事和海饼乾的故事非常类似，最重要的
差别在于「风之王」是编造出来的故事，而海饼乾的故事比小说还像小说，是一个真实的故事。
这本书不但告诉你海饼乾的故事，还详细介绍了关于赛马的一切常识，是一本又感人又能学习
某行业历史很有趣的书。
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发表于 2013-6-2 11:05:20
溫馨小提醒: 建议各位在推荐时先点击以上链接, 查看一下書會之前看過以及討論
如果时间许可，LZ会在各推荐的书籍名称上加上连结。
如果你推荐的书籍，书苑中有此书，建议自行加上连结，以方便推广。
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