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Heart Of The Sound
University of Utah Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-87480-791-2 | Paper: 978-0-87480-843-8
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"You can’t step in the same river twice—although I once believed I could. I believed that the pieces of my life I had chosen, those I held close to my heart, would, once chosen and held, remain the same."—from the book How does one recover from disaster? That question is at the heart of Marybeth Holleman’s lyrical, elegiac response to the repercussions of the Exxon Valdez oil spill that devastated Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989. Twining together the destruction of an ecosystem and the disintegration of her marriage, Holleman explores the resiliency of nature—both wild and human—and the ways in which that resiliency is tested. Like the oil that remains pooled beneath rocks years after the tanker spill, the emotional wounds of the past lie just below the surface. Recovery and restoration from the pain wrought by human hands does not come easily. If much of nature writing is about the heart’s search for an unspoiled, perfect landscape, The Heart of the Sound is about what happens when the return-to-paradise fantasy is over and paradise is lost. In language rich with passion and hard-won insight, Holleman creates a captivating picture of a woman who found her Eden in the sweeping fjords of Alaska only to lose it to ecological tragedy. But somewhere within that loss, she finds herself.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marybeth Holleman teaches creative writing, women's studies, and literature at the University of Alaska and has published essays, articles, and poetry in various journals and anthologies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Prologue xi Part I Parts Unknown: 1986 3 Duck: Culross Island 000 Locus Amatus: 1986-1988 000 Thunder: Blackstone Bay 000 Part II Struck: 1989 000 Goat: Culross Passage 000 Blood on the Hands: 1989 000 Seas: Port Wells 000 Awakening: 1991 000 Swim: Jackpot Stream 000 Rising Tides: 1993 000 Nellie Juan: Derickson Bay 000 Storm Warning: 1994 000 Wet: West Twin Bay 000 Ashes: 1996 000 Observation Point: Perry Island 000 Part III Fireweed: Alaganik Slough 000 Bull's-Eye: 1996 000 Communicating: South Culross 000 Restoration: 1997 000 Clouds: Port Fidalgo 000 In This Light: 1997 000 Otter: Mink Island 000 AB Pod: 1997 000 Bear: Picturesque Cove 000 Scars We Notice: 1997-1999 000 Hummingbird: Harrison Lagoon 000 Paradise Falls: 1999 000 Epilogue 000 Acknowledgments 000 About the Author 000
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