1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460089903321

Autore

Klatt Lewis S

Titolo

Cloud of ink [[electronic resource] /] / L.S. Klatt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011

ISBN

1-58729-972-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (85 p.)

Collana

The Iowa poetry prize

Disciplina

811.6

811/.6

Soggetti

Poetry - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Aeronautics; More Splendid; Liquefaction; Transit of the Beautiful; Insult Is Necessary for the Perfection of Beauty; Momentum; Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91; The Pear as a Wild Boar; Husbandry; Ohio; Berryman in Cincinnati; Darwin's Mouth; The Zoo of Reason; Ovation; Shakedown in the Sugar Shine; Recreation; Whippoorwill; The Calm of a Thoughtful Sentence; The Good Fight; Affliction; February; A Vague Field for Priestcraft; Mercy Planet; Cortona; Body Part in a Tuscan Garden; Canticle : Calculus; Antediluvian; Acqua Alta; Burano; Reading; Where My Sunflower Wishes to Go

Old World BirdsWhite Elephant; Arrow; Semiconductors in the Breadbasket; A Sudden Unspeakable Indignation; The Americans; Pioneer; Broadcaster; The Fluid Rider; The Firmament; The States of the Great Lakes; J. D. Salinger, Recluse, Dies at 91; Figment in Pink & Transcendental; May Day; The; Fish & Wildlife; She Makes Me Lie Down; The Good Guide, ca. 1310; George Keats; The Lily Always Hangs Its Head; Liquidambar; Crete; Lines of Motion; Chiaroscuro; Audubon; Heaven; Frontiersman; The Repository of Sacred Music; A Better Mousetrap; The Author; For Lack of a Better Word

Sommario/riassunto

On the surface, L. S. Klatt's poems are airy and humorous-with their tales of chickens wandering the highways of Ohio and Winnebago trailers rolling up to heaven and whales bumping like watermelons in a bathtub-but just under the surface they turn disconcertingly serious as



they celebrate the fluent word.  Under the heat of inquiry, under the pressure of metaphor, the poems in Cloud of Ink liquefy, bend, and serpentine as they seek sometimes a new and sometimes an ancient destination. They present the reader with existential questions as they side-wind into t

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783457703321

Autore

Meredith Meri

Titolo

Dealing with an international clientele : communications, diplomacy and etiquette / / Meri Meredith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mùˆnchen, : Saur, 2004

Munchen, Germany : , : K.G. Saur, , 2005

ISBN

1-283-40335-8

9786613403353

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

The information services management series

Classificazione

AN 76000

Disciplina

025.52

303.482

Soggetti

Communication, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Problem -- Chapter Two. Welcome -- Chapter Three. Respect -- Chapter Four. Speak Slowly and Distinctly -- Chapter Five. Communication -- Chapter Six. Etiquette -- Chapter Seven. Diplomacy -- Chapter Eight. Learning versus Teaching -- Chapter Nine. Cultures of the World, A-I -- Chapter Ten. Cultures of the World, J-W -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book is aimed at all librarians and information professionals working in culturally diverse environments, whether in an academic, public or commercial setting. It addresses the issues of communication, diplomatic etiquette and common courtesies from a wide range of cultures and of how to provide library services across cultural boundaries and languages. Each chapter clearly defines a different



aspect and provides clear guidance and strategies for librarians to follow in their everyday work. The book is packed with advice on how to deal with many of the situations, which arise as the result