{"product_id":"sublime-physick-essays-paperback-softback-9781496230645","title":"Sublime Physick; Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496230645","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSublime Physick\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Madden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496230645\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 24 photographs, 24 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.396 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“No one writing essays today does so with a greater awareness of the genre’s literary traditions than Patrick Madden. Irresistible, with their meditative musicality and erudite reflections, these essays brilliantly balance a tough-minded pragmatism with a warm embrace of the impossible. Like all the great essayists he pays homage to, Madden seeks to find the miraculous in the mundane, the sublime in the ordinary, the hazards lurking in our momentary contentment. He understands perfectly why Emerson thought the joy of essaying lay in surprise: to surprise their readers, essayists must first surprise themselves.”-Robert Atwan, series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“It’s like Montaigne and Sebald got drunk and wrote a book together.”-Brian Doyle, author of \u003ci\u003eMink River\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaping \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eSublime Physick\u003c\/i\u003e is] a collection of moments that culminate in lives both exalted and ordinary.\"-Amanda Forbes Silva, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Ingenious and witty, audacious and charming, learned, moving, and frank: Patrick Madden’s \u003ci\u003eSublime Physick\u003c\/i\u003e places him among the most interesting and essential essayists of our time.”-Mary Cappello, author of \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCalled Back\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A fun and funny book.\"-Joe Plicka, \u003ci\u003eDialogue\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Reading Madden’s meta-writings on his own writing is like listening to a magician revealing his tricks, yet he always holds the upper hand.\"-E.V. De Cleyre, \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Patrick Madden combines, to a rare degree, a scholar’s knowledge and an artist’s command of the essay as a literary form. In his hands, the essay becomes a medium for pondering and celebrating our mysterious existence. Readers who wish to reflect more deeply on their own lives will find abundant rewards in these pages.”-Scott Russell Sanders, author of \u003ci\u003eEarth Works: Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"To read a Patrick Madden essay is to interface with the mind of an engaged, self-conscious thinker. Actually, that's not quite right: It is to interface with Madden's curation of the minds of many thinkers within the expanse of his own.\"-John Proctor, \u003ci\u003eNumÉro Cinq \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The essays in \u003ci\u003eSublime Physick\u003c\/i\u003e are more than self-reflective; they connect internal states with the marvelous world.\"-RenÉe E. D'Aoust, \u003ci\u003eInside Higher Ed\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e2016 \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Indies Award, Silver\u003cbr\u003e 2016 Association for Mormon Letters Award\u003cbr\u003e 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This introspective and exuberant collection of Patrick Madden’s essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In \u003ci\u003eSublime Physick\u003c\/i\u003e, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive, subjects, ruminating on midlife, time, family, forgiveness, loss, originality, a Canadian rock band, and much more, discerning the ways in which the natural world (\u003ci\u003efisica\u003c\/i\u003e) transcends and joins the realm of ideas (\u003ci\u003esublime\u003c\/i\u003e) through the application of a meditative mind.\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience abut and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eSpit\u003cbr\u003eFisica Sublime\u003cbr\u003eEntering and Breaking\u003cbr\u003eIn Media Vita\u003cbr\u003eEmpathy\u003cbr\u003eMiser’s Farthings\u003cbr\u003eBuying a Bass\u003cbr\u003eMoment, Momentous, Momentum\u003cbr\u003eOn Being Recognized\u003cbr\u003eFor the Last Time\u003cbr\u003eIndependent Redundancy\u003cbr\u003eFixity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600018764056,"sku":"9781496230645","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sublime-physick-essays-paperback-softback-9781496230645","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}