Naming the Light: A Week of Years

by Rosemary Deen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065727
• ISBN13: 9780252065729
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Rosemary Deen (co-author of 2 composition texts with the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry prize winner Marie Ponsot) has now published her own book of lyric yet poetic non-fiction essays "Naming the Light A Week of Years". Naming the Light is about places and people, books and music and travel, gardening and astronomy. Some essays examine Rosemary's Deen's experience finding herself well placed, at home in an old house in the New York's Catskill region. Others travel out to remote worlds, then bring them next door through the author's power of imagination. Mrs. Deen see human experience as part of a system alive with continuity between nature and culture-its worms and its catherdrals,its weather and its cantatas-all one, like a giant plant or a richly woven tapestry. In prose elegant and deep as poetry, she explores how we want to be named, and how we want to name as a way of trying to be true, how light in which we see governs our seeing, how history is always present, how language survives translation, how women behave, and men, and what it might mean to be nigh or near someone-to be a neighbor, what tools (language or spades) mean to work, how roots balance us, and how what gardens really grow are metaphors for human life.Naming the Light will find a welcome place on the shelf of garden literature...Anyone who enjoys natural history of any kind would enjoy this book -Mary Swander, coauthor of "Parsnips in the Snow: Interviews with Midwestern Gardeners".