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At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

Paul Cézanne
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Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not “single”—meaningless outside of coupledom—but “solitary,” able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate “fortress marriage,” turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening. Johnson taps into an older tradition embodied by Trappist monks near the Kentucky home where he grew up, and by artists and writers including Paul Cézanne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Rod McKuen, Nina Simone, and Bill Cunningham. Johnson includes his parents, who in workshop or garden found places to be alone; married people, too, can be solitaries in spirit.


A hybrid of memoir, inspiration, social criticism, and celebration of the lives of great solitary artists, 'AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY' will resonate with anyone needing a break from the clamor of “society.”


RUNNING TIME ➼ 7hrs. and 53mins.

©2020 Fenton Johnson 2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Language
English
Format
Audible Audio
Release
March 10, 2020

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

Paul Cézanne
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not “single”—meaningless outside of coupledom—but “solitary,” able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate “fortress marriage,” turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening. Johnson taps into an older tradition embodied by Trappist monks near the Kentucky home where he grew up, and by artists and writers including Paul Cézanne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Rod McKuen, Nina Simone, and Bill Cunningham. Johnson includes his parents, who in workshop or garden found places to be alone; married people, too, can be solitaries in spirit.


A hybrid of memoir, inspiration, social criticism, and celebration of the lives of great solitary artists, 'AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY' will resonate with anyone needing a break from the clamor of “society.”


RUNNING TIME ➼ 7hrs. and 53mins.

©2020 Fenton Johnson 2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Language
English
Format
Audible Audio
Release
March 10, 2020

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