Poet and marine biologist Eva Saulitis has studied orcas in Prince William Sound, Alaska, since 1983 with her partner Craig Matkin. She is the author of Prayer in Wind (poetry); Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas (memoir); Many Ways to Say It (poetry); and Leaving Resurrection (essays). Her work has appeared in many journals, including Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, On Earth, Salon, and Orion. A recipient of the 2013 Governor's Award for the Humanities, she lives in Homer, Alaska.
"'You showed me / a bog candle. // Nothing's been / the same since
then.' With these simple words, Eva Saulitis shows how true life is
lived when tiny changes occur. With her attention attuned to inner
and outer landscapes, Eva writes poems that are a testament to the
precarious splendor of this world."
--Arthur Sze "Eva Saulitis explores the web of connections between
nature, science, longing, illness, and the continually shifting
boundaries of the mind. In these poems, we navigate a course
through beauty, terror, and mystery in order to reach a place for
which the only maps are prayers."
--Camille Dungy "Prayer is often an inward gesture; the self in
contemplation, in quiet reflection or retreat, eyes closed and
hands still. The prayer-poems of Eva Saulitis's newest book,
however, reach out as they reach in. They give attention to the
birds, family, friends, machinery, history, skies and horizons. The
fact that illness, which can be such an isolating and alienating
experience, finally brings the poet into this rich, nuanced
relationship with the world is both moving and inspiring. Prayer in
Wind is a hymn to life itself and all that conspires to make it
meaningful."
--Elizabeth Bradfield
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