Sightlines
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 095630866X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Multi-award winning poet Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. . She has written two works of non-fiction: Among Muslims 9780953522774, an acclaimed travel narrative, and Findings9780954221744, the ground-breaking nature/travel book set in Scotland. She lives in Fife and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Stirling University
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.
As shrewdly bemused as she is intently observant, as imaginatively interpretive as she is curious, Jamie travels to the Arctic, where she ponders time, vastness, and vulnerability. Jamie excavates her memories of the summer following her graduation from high school, when she worked at an archaeological dig, gleaning experiences that inspire far-reaching musings about our ancestors, art, and burial. --Donna Seaman . Jamie becomes entranced by a magnificent collection of suspended whale skeletons in a Norwegian museum and enchanted by the moon’s “pewtery, equalizing light.” So fully does she give herself over to all that she witnesses, so unexpected are her perceptions, that Jamie
Different than expected I have mixed feelings about this collection of essays on nature by award winning poet, Kathleen Jamie. Jamie is clearly a master craftsman of language with a fascination for nature. I don't know if I would classify her as a full-on nature writer. This book is classified as "history" although it reads in places like a memoir and in other places like a travel book. It definitely does not read as poetry.Sightlines contains 1Different than expected Carol T. I have mixed feelings about this collection of essays on nature by award winning poet, Kathleen Jamie. Jamie is clearly a master craftsman of language with a fascination for nature. I don't know if I would classify her as a full-on nature writer. This book is classified as "history" although it reads in places like a memoir and in other places like a travel book. It definitely does not read as poetry.Sightlines contains 14 personal essays spanning many years of the author's life, reminiscences, and travels going as far back as high school. She covers everything from birds and the moon to whale skeleto. personal essays spanning many years of the author's life, reminiscences, and travels going as far back as high school. She covers everything from birds and the moon to whale skeleto. Supberb and Haunting. Interweaving her own story of illness with the earths and using language that is at once sharp yet poetic.The author takes the reader on both an inner and outer journey.The revelations are both personal yet have an almost universal tone to them.When she finds her feet planted in the organic world of Great Nature on the spell-casting outer Hebrides ofScotland the merging of inner life with tide and sky seem as natural as the flight of the birds that nest and noodle on the bare rocks beset by fierce winds and quickly changing weather.With the exception of the somewhat drawn-out bit on the whales the boo. Lance M. Foster said Reveries. A collection of evocative nature essays, focused on moments and memories, this is a relaxing book that is great to take on a trip or to read in bed. From small moments like the mystery of a desiccated bird on a windswept island to a memory of her first archaeological dig as a young woman trying to figure out her life’s path, this book leads to quiet reflection and reverie for those engaged deeply with our natural world. A bonus for me was learning some regional vernacular from Scotland I had never heard before, so it really gave a sense of place as well.