HOW TO BE ALONE: HOW TO BE ALONE IS A HAND-WRITTEN BOOK ABOUT FINDING HAPPINESS IN SOLITUDE
Book ID/图书代码： 12760012B59443
English Summary/英文概要： In 2009, poet and songwriter Tanya Davis collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce a short video-poem entitled How to Be Alone. The short has since been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Vancouver Film Fest, The Worldwide Short Film Festival, and the VideoPoetry Festival in Berlin. The video has earned more than 5 million views and seen worldwide circulation on popular social networking platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
How to Be Alone is a book about being okay with being alone. It’s an inspirational how-to guide to embracing solitude rather than fearing it. From the bathroom to the coffee shop, the lunch counter to the move theater, How to Be Alone emphasizes that being alone doesn’t mean being lonely. It is a poetic tutorial on how to find happiness and freedom in solitude and how to thrive in a world that makes you feel bad if you’re alone.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2009年，诗人、音乐创作人谭娅•达维斯与独立电影制作人安德里亚•多夫曼联手拍摄了一部影像诗短片《独处之道》。这部短片很快便出现在各大电影盛典之上，其中包括温哥华电影节、世界短片电影节、柏林影像诗电影节。这部影像诗已获得500万次观看，并在世界范围内广为流传，曾出现在诸如YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, 及Pinterest等热门社交网站上。
《独处之道》将教会你如何习惯并喜欢上独处。这部极具启发性的指南将教会你拥抱一个人的独处时光，而不是单纯的对独处心怀畏惧。从浴室到咖啡店，午餐柜台到电影院，《独处之道》将为你展示当你独处之时，你并非是孤独的。本书是一本充满了诗意的指南，指引你在独处的状况下寻觅到快乐与自由，并在你觉得独处感觉很糟糕时，帮助你的世界变得绘声绘色，欣欣向荣。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：http://writingya.blogspot.ca/2013/10/book-birthday-tanya-davis-how-to-be.htm
About the Author/作者介绍： 谭娅•达维斯是一名诗人、故事叙述者、音乐家和歌曲词曲作家，她将自己的诸多特长融会贯通，使其语言与乐声呈现出一股婚礼般的喜悦之情，正是这样一种非传统的风格使她俘获了诸多观众的心。
谭娅曾被授予2011/12年度辛科舍省哈利法克斯市桂冠诗人荣誉称号。她一直收到各种邀请，请她执笔诗歌或是演讲词的创作，并为诸如加拿大冬运会、PEI建议委员会女性联盟、CBS广播电台及加拿大国家电影局等诸多机构进行创作。此外她还活跃在音乐界，进行词曲创作，并发行有三张专辑，每一张均获得多个奖项的提名。她不仅在各类节庆典礼上进行表演，还在加拿大全国的学校中进行演出，并频繁出现在广播与电视节目之中。其第一部诗集《初之孤独》已于2011年由橡树出版社出版发行。现阶段她正拍摄一部长篇多视角影片，该影片由加拿大艺术协会赞助。
Tanya Davis is a poet, storyteller, musician, and singer-songwriter who fuses these elements together in a refreshing matrimony of language and sound, side-stepping genre and captivating audiences in the process.
Tanya was the 2011/12 Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She regularly receives commissions to pen poems and speeches and has worked in this regard for such bodies as the Canada Winter Games, the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women, CBC Radio, and the National Film Board of Canada. She also works and performs as a songwriter and musician and has released 3 full length albums, picking up awards and nominations for each one. She has performed at festivals as well as in schools across Canada, and appears frequently on radio and television. Her first book of poetry, At first, lonely, was published in 2011 by Acorn Press. She is currently at work developing a full-length, multi-disciplinary show, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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