{"product_id":"prayer-in-wind-paperback","title":"Prayer in Wind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEva Saulitis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a devastating diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, biologist and poet Eva Saulitis found herself gripped by a long-buried childhood urge to pray. Finding little solace in the rote \"from the fox-hole please Gods\" arising unbidden in her head, she set herself the task of examining the impulse itself, waking every morning in darkness to write poems, driven on by the questions: What is prayer? What am I praying to? What am I praying for? Who is listening? Each day's poem proposed a new and surprising answer as, over two years, she traced the questions back to her origins, her Latvian roots, her peasant grandmother, her war-haunted father, her secret-bearing mother, her childhood Catholicism, her obsession with the natural world. Moving from inward to outward, among radically different geographies (coastal Alaska, Latvia, and Hawaii) and spiritual influences (Catholicism, mysticism, Zen Buddhism) as well as forms, these biologically precise poems range widely in their search. Unexpectedly, these prayer-poems, forged out of a solitary confrontation with death, take a reader not out of, but deeper into physicality--of the body, the earth, and language itself. As Saulitis learns, what is most desired is not transcendence, but for as long as possible, \"her hands thrust deep in the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet 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 \u003ci\u003ePrayer in Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (poetry); \u003ci\u003eInto Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas\u003c\/i\u003e (memoir); \u003ci\u003eMany Ways to Say It\u003c\/i\u003e (poetry); and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Resurrection \u003c\/i\u003e(essays). Her work has appeared in many journals, including \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ecotone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Prairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Quarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Salon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of the 2013 Governor's Award for the Humanities, she lives in Homer, Alaska. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730353229887,"sku":"9781597094436","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/15e9643c3e9f3d37ee0e25b2fd842913.webp?v=1765125719","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/prayer-in-wind-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}