Surfacing
Jamie, Kathleen (1962-)
Surfacing / Kathleen Jamie - New York : Penguin Books , 2019 - 247 p. ; 21 cm
Reindeer Cave -- A Reflection -- In Quinhagak -- The Eagle -- Links of Noltland -- The Inevitable Pagoda -- Surfacing -- From the Window -- A Tibetan Dog -- The Wind Horse - Elders -- Voice of the Wood.
Poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
English
9780143134459
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Scotland
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Alaska
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Tibet Autonomous Region
Life change events
Scotland---Description and travel
Alaska---Description and travel
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)---Description and travel
PR6060.A477
824.914 JAM
Surfacing / Kathleen Jamie - New York : Penguin Books , 2019 - 247 p. ; 21 cm
Reindeer Cave -- A Reflection -- In Quinhagak -- The Eagle -- Links of Noltland -- The Inevitable Pagoda -- Surfacing -- From the Window -- A Tibetan Dog -- The Wind Horse - Elders -- Voice of the Wood.
Poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
English
9780143134459
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Scotland
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Alaska
Jamie, Kathleen---Travel---Tibet Autonomous Region
Life change events
Scotland---Description and travel
Alaska---Description and travel
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)---Description and travel
PR6060.A477
824.914 JAM
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