The Long Field

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The Long Field

£20.00

The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of this American writer’s life. The book’s format twines the authors story around that of Wales by viewing both through the lens of hiraeth, a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate (one literal meaning of hiraeth is ‘long field’). It is also the name for the bone-deep longing for something or someone – a home, culture, language, or even a younger self. The Long Field braids memoir with the essential hiraeth stories of Wales, and in doing so creates a radical new vision of place and belonging.

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Materials: Hardback
Dimensions: Approx. 22.5 x 15cm
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2 in stock

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About the author

Pamela Petro

Pamela Petro is an author, artist, and educator living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was recently made an honorary Fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park, the MacDowell Colony, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. She went to Brown University as an undergrad, and to The University of Wales, Trinity St David, for her master’s degree in Word and Image Studies. She also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris I, and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, France.
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