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Aligning the Glacier's Ghost : Essays on Solitude and Landscape by Sarah Capdeville (2024, Trade Paperback)

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This stunning and evocative debut gives shape to those distances, naming them as grief, narrative, and belonging. In spanning the space between loss and being lost.

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PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press

ISBN-100826365930

ISBN-139780826365934

eBay Product ID (ePID)22065343065

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Book TitleAligning the Glacier's Ghost : Essays on Solitude and Landscape

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicEssays

GenreLiterary Collections

AuthorSarah Capdeville

Book SeriesRiver Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"These gorgeous essays capture the deep beauty of wildness within and outside of us. The book is a clear-eyed, all-inclusive celebration of what blurs and bores, what freezes, aches, grieves, and soars. Capdeville embraces the whole: glaciers, meadows, rivers, fires, elk, bear, goshawks, and huckleberries. Pickups, parking lots, and operating rooms, too. In Aligning the Glacier's Ghost, all is connected and all is in motion. 'I've panned for silver linings,' Capdeville writes, 'and found only chaos.' What magnificent chaos it is." --Ana Maria Spagna, author of Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre, "The essays in this gorgeous collection weave a story of geographies--emotional, linguistic, cultural, and intellectual--undergirded by a voice so compelling I could not put it down. . . . Aligning the Glacier's Ghost is a remarkable debut."--Nathasha Trethewey, author of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Part I. Switchback 1. Carve Away the Moon 2. Exposure 3. Places to Avoid at Dusk 4. Siento 5. Headwater 6. Stories That Hold Water Part II. Point of Return 7. Porcupine Ridge 8. Different Kinds of Solitude 9. What Stones Hold 10. Cracking the Window 11. Reasons to Carry Bear Spray 12. The Long View References

SynopsisRooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude. This stunning and evocative debut gives shape to those distances, naming them as grief, narrative, and belonging. Capdeville begins the collection with one of many fissures of health, setting the stage for a lush braiding of metaphor, the body, and the natural world. In spanning the space between loss and being lost, Aligning the Glacier's Ghost outlines absence, the evolution of self, and Capdeville's foundation of place in trail work, travel, and early adulthood. Readers will find themselves enmeshed in Capdeville' reflections on how the seen and unseen interconnect to shape an inner world., Rooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude. This stunning and evocative debut gives shape to those distances, naming them as grief, narrative, and belonging. Capdeville begins the collection with one of many fissures of health, setting the stage for a lush braiding of metaphor, the body, and the natural world. In spanning the space between loss and being lost, Aligning the Glacier's Ghost outlines absence, the evolution of self, and Capdeville's foundation of place in trail work, travel, and early adulthood. Readers will find themselves enmeshed in Capdeville's reflections on how the seen and unseen interconnect to shape an inner world., Rooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude.