Islands the Universe Home Author:Gretel Ehrlich Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation an wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and elk and prarie dogs, and eagles falling out of the sky. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures a "light moving do... more »wn a mountain slope." One evening there is contrapuntal dance of death: a calf she has tried to save, and a friend and mentor both die. And she remembers what a painter once told her when she was twelve years old, as he was painting her portrait: "You have to mix death into anything. Then you have to mix life into that. If they are not there I try to mix them. Otherwise, the painting won't be human."
Through these explorations, in prose that is supple and muscular and evocative, Ehrlich begins to understand her own longings, her own nature, and the relatedness of her life to the universe.« less
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