The solace of open spaces
著者
書誌事項
The solace of open spaces
Penguin Books, 1986, c1985
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
収録内容
- The solace of open spaces
- Obituary
- Other lives
- About men
- From a sheepherder's notebook
- Friends, foes, and working animals
- The smooth skull of winter
- On water
- Just married
- Rules of the game
- To live in two worlds
- A storm, the cornfields, and elk
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich's new book, Unsolaced
"Wyoming has found its Whitman." -Annie Dillard
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn't leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on "the planet of Wyoming," a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.
Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces-the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons-in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves.
Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose "as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning" (Newsday), Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us.
目次
The Solace Of Open SpacesPreface
The Solace of Open Spaces
Obituary
Other Lives
About Men
From a Sheepherder's Notebook
Friends, Foes, and Working Animals
The Smooth Skull of Winter
On Water
Just Married
Rules of the Game
To Live in Two Worlds
A Storm, the Cornfield, and Elk
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