"And now I feel all these events from a week in the Prospect
mountains, and the narrative pattern they cast like a shadow, or
like ripples in sand, have been filed somewhere in the regions of
the brain near to where the neurons and synapses first lit and
flexed their tiny, metaphoric muscles from that childhood reading.
In recent years scientists have emphasized how changing and dynamic
is the human brain, shaped and structured by both thoughts and
experience. The quest for understanding, the peripheral vision we
gain from gazing where we do, becomes a kind of topography in our
own head's contours, gray matter under bone and skin and hair."
In "Prospect," her wise collection of essays, Elizabeth Dodd
widens her gaze to peer at the world through a myriad of
lenses--natural history, local history, science, anthropology,
philosophy, and literature. Offering cultural commentary and
personal revelation, she invites the reader on a journey into the
heart of life--the life of places, the life of the individual, the
life of a culture. It is a journey whose map is continuously being
formed out of the matter of the moment.
For Dodd, the pins on the map outlining the way are made up of
elm trees and mosquitoes, burial and ceremonial mounds, a lunatic
asylum, an inner-city neighborhood, the dissolution of a marriage,
a mother's death. In the venerable tradition of Gary Snyder, Terry
Tempest Williams, and John Haines, Dodd uses the elements of the
natural world and historical fact as compass points to locate the
sense of self.
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