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Genre/Form: | Essays |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jamie, Kathleen, Surfacing New York : Penguin Books, 2019. (DLC) 2019025261 |
Named Person: | Kathleen Jamie; Kathleen Jamie; Kathleen Jamie; Kathleen Jamie |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen Jamie |
ISBN: | 9780143134459 0143134450 |
OCLC Number: | 1083708156 |
Notes: | "First published in Great Britain by Sort Of Books 2019" -- Verso title page. |
Description: | 247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | Essays. |
Responsibility: | Kathleen Jamie. |
Abstract:
"In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, 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 impressively 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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