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Surfacing / Kathleen Jamie

By:

Jamie, Kathleen, (1962-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books , 2019Description: 247 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780143134459

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

824.914 JAM

LOC classification:

PR6060.A477

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	824.914 JAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		041975

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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.

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