Thank you, Karen? Did you buy it?
Patsy On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:46 PM Karen Reeds via Origami < origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote: > 8/15/2022 > Spotted on the University of Chicago e-book sale just now -- a book > inspired by the symbolism of the origami crane: > https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50460825.html > The cover illustration is an ingenious melding of images invoking both > peacocks and origami cranes. > https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50460825.html > I haven't read the book yet, but I applaud the theme! > > Happy folding! Keep safe! > Karen > > ========= > DISTRIBUTED FOR Seagull Books > Cover copy: > A Thousand Cranes for India > > Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred > > Edited by Pallavi Aiyar > > In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes > will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, > solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise > in wish making. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, > and warning. Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japan’s particular > mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation. The crane > is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its home with scant > regard to the blood-soaked lines that humans have drawn on maps. > > This anthology uses origami cranes as a way for some of India’s best-known > writers, poets, and artists to form a shared civic space for a conversation > about the fault lines in India at a time of darkness. The twenty-three > pieces collected here encompass reportage, stories, poems, memoir, and > polemic—the kind of complex and enriching diversity that India demands and > deserves. The paper crane becomes a motif of connection, beauty, and > reclamation in an otherwise degraded country, enabling those who fight with > words to become the best army they can be. > _______________________________ > 176 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 > The India List > FICTION > Literature and Literary Criticism: GENERAL CRITICISM AND CRITICAL THEORY > > (Here's a link to the complete sale catalogue: > whole sale catalogue: > https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/virtualCatalog/vc106.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75%25%20Off%20E-Book%20Sale%3A%20use%20code%20EBOOK75&utm_campaign=D2C%2075%25%20Off%20E-Book%20Sale%20-%208/15/2022%28morning%29%20Winning%20Version > ) > > > _______________________________ > Karen Reeds, ringleader > Princeton Public Library Origami Group ON HIATUS during pandemic > Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ > We usually meet 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8pm, First Floor, Quiet > Room. Free! > We provide paper! All welcome! (Kids under 8, please bring a grown-up.) > Princeton Public Library info: 609.924.9529 > https://princetonlibrary.org/ > > karenmre...@gmail.com > -- ********************************************** Patsy Wang-Iverson cell: 609.532.0292 net: pwangiver...@gmail.com
