{"product_id":"hymn-to-the-chesapeake-by-robert-p-arthur-illustrated-by-a-aubrey-bodine","title":"Hymn to the Chesapeake by Robert P. Arthur, illustrated by A. Aubrey Bodine","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"descriptionAndDetails\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-extra-large\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" class=\"feature\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-row feature\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-small prodDescWidth\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-live=\"polite\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"300\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded version of \u003cem\u003eHymn to the Chesapeake\u003c\/em\u003e contains new works from the past twenty years, many revisions, and numerous additional photographs by A. Aubey Bodine, whose photographs inspired much of Robert Arthur’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow available in a Collector's Hardback Edition as of April 2019.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chesapeake region has inspired and nurtured humanity for millennia. Long before the crossing of the Mayflower to this region, native Americans lived in harmony with the bounty of the land and seascape. The Pilgrims sought refuge in the new country when they landed in the marshes of the Chesapeake. Challenged by the thick forests, the climate, disease, the incredibly strong nature, the early settlements nearly died out. Humanity has been drawn to the natural beauty and bounty of the Chesapeake for as long as we can remember. Pirates, settlers, presidents, inventors, artists, poets, writers, musicians, farmers, fishermen, immigrants, people seeking refuge, livelihood, homestead, a way of life, their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRobert P. Arthur may be the finest poet ever to target the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. Growing up in the small town of Melfa, he absorbed Eastern Shore language, culture, and bloodline. He says that knowledge of the water and people, storms at sea and sinking islands was “thrust” upon him; but leaving the shore as often as he did left him a preservationist at heart—this book his edifice. Into these poems he has poured not only himself but also half-forgotten towns, unpredictable stretches of water, watermen and waterwomen, oyster wars, moonshiners, and pirates, as well as sea grasses, water fowl, the photography of A. Aubrey Bodine and voices of the bay not his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eSo many doomed things are held in place in this book. So many shinings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIt makes me nostalgic for places I've never been\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMac MacKinney, Virginia Pilot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"…in the Crimea, I read Mr. Arthur’s and felt transported to the Chesapeake. All at once, the United States and Russia were one….\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDr. Georgina Nevzarova\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eArthur is the author of over twenty books, including poem\/plays, poems, and plays, many of which focus on the Chesapeake region. His works have been performed nationally and internationally, notably in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was a finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010. This edition of \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHymn to the Chesapeake \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eis a full realization of the author’s vision of the \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHymn to the Chesapeake \u003c\/b\u003ebegun \u003c\/span\u003ein 1973 and published by Road Publishers in 1991. The original was the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is inevitable that the words the Chesapeake’s finest poet should come together with Bodine’s photographs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eA. Aubrey Bodine was a painter with the camera rather than a conventional photojournalist; he favored a soft focus, somewhat analogous to Arthur’s remembrances, and likewise, he was a romantic rather than an objective chronicler. A pictorialist, whose first concern was fine art rather than just hard-edged photographic record, he worked from 1927 to 1970 for the Baltimore Sunday Sun, where its \u003cem\u003eSun Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e became his gallery. His genius in the darkroom is legendary. 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