Calm Things: Essays

by Shawna Lemay

The term still life did not come into being until 1650. The French adopted the term nature morte, dead nature, around 1750. The painter de Chirico was said to have preferred the Italian term vita... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978491734
• ISBN13: 9780978491734
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Palimpsest Press
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Calm indeed

This is a beautiful book of essays from a modern-day contemplative weaving loving threads of awareness through family and art. The title, Calm things, is taken from the Japanese for still life. And since Lemay's husband Robert is a still life artist (his art is on the cover), the explorations are daily and personal. I highly recommend it.

A book to savour

This is a book of such style and depth that it's best not to read all the essays at once. Read one, and give it a day or two to work its magic on you. Then to the next and so on. You will be rewarded.

Serene and beautiful...

This volume of essays provides a unique view of domestic life and our relationship to the mundane. Through Lemay's eyes, the prosaic becomes poetic and the boring becomes beautiful. A thoroughly engaging work!