Surfacing

SurfacingA new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award winning author of Sightlines. 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

A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines.

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 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9780143134459
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/08/2019
Library Journal 09/01/2019 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001