Kathleen Jamie. (2013). Sightlines. The Experiment.

Kathleen Jamie. 2013. Sightlines. The Experiment.

Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines. The Experiment, 2013.

Kathleen Jamie. Sightlines. The Experiment, 2013.

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     Kathleen Jamie, one of the UK's foremost poets, is the author of four books of poetry and three nonfiction titles, including Sightlines. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie "for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture"; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award (twice). A professor of creative writing at the University of Stirling, she lives with her family in Fife, Scotland.

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Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book

In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish "byways and hills" to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what, exactly, constitutes "nature," and upends the idea that it is always picturesque. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges the reader: "Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see."

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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction
     Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
     Winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2013
     
     "Kathleen Jamie has built a writing life around paying attention. The 14 personal essays in Sightlines include explorations—methodically reported and lyrically written—of secluded places like a cave in Spain whose walls are covered with prehistoric art, and the remote island of Rona in northern Scotland.
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   • source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer
   • content: [Kathleen] Jamie may remind American readers of Annie Dillard for essays that explore the wilderness in detail but find power in the connections the writers make between what they observe in the wild and the way we live our daily lives. . . . The writing is exquisite.
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   • source: InsideHook, a top 20 best nature book of the 2000's
   • content: Some nature writing is brilliantly grounded in its author's voice. That's very much the case with Kathleen Jamie's Sightlines.
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: A lyrical work of profound insight.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: This intelligent collection of 14 essays, informed by science and myth, heightened attention, and cultural dreams, is written with Scots brogue, language, and attitude that will give American readers a fresh view of nature.
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   • source: Orion Magazine editors, from the awards citation for the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction
   • content: Kathleen Jamie's Sightlines dissects the natural world with precision, humor, and love. The essays in this book not only inspire us to look more closely, but also have the power to open us up to a new kind of emotional experience of the planet.
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   • source: Diana Athill, author of Somewhere Towards the End
   • content: Kathleen Jamie's Sightlines, a collection of brilliant and enticing essays about natural phenomena, tingles with life. John Berger called her a 'sorceress,' and so she is.
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   • source: The Guardian
   • content: The dance of Jamie's words enacts the mind in motion as it moves between the shifting, shimmering processes of nature and art.
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   • source: The Sunday Telegraph
   • content: Jamie's prose is exquisite, yet never indulgent. . . . This is a book that will stay with you, as its sights and sounds have stayed with its writer. [A] work of intense purity and quiet genius, and we're lucky to have it.
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    • source: The Sunday Times (London)
    • content: A haunting new collection from one of our finest nature writers . . . . Immensely beguiling. There are piquant descriptions that stop you in your tracks . . . . but the real power of the writing derives from the steady increment of detail and the honesty of her responses to the natural world.
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    • source: Literary Review
    • content: Her written words make readers see with a clarity bestowed by only a few most gifted writers. . . . It is not often that the prose of a poet is as powerful as her verse, but Jamie's is. There are people uninterested in books about remote places and wild creatures; but to the rest of us [this book] will be a treasure.
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    • source: The Scotsman
    • content: There is such a precision, of both thinking and seeing, displayed in these works that you would have to be a very obtuse kind of reader not to realize that Jamie is a poet.
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    • source: Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
    • content: At which point I put the book down again and thought: 'I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, or think, like that.' It's like this pretty much all the way through.
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    • source: Words with Jam
    • content: This is a lovely book, full of gentle joy and anger and an almost spiritual wonder for and affinity with the natural world. It is written in crystalline language that enhances perception, and explores the essence, ultimately, of our human existence in relation to the rest of the natural world.
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      July 8, 2013
      This intelligent collection of 14 essays, informed by science and myth, heightened attention, and cultural dreams, is written with Scots brogue, language, and attitude that will give American readers a fresh view of nature. Annoyed by the rosy stories of sea lions and polar bears at a conference of scientists and artists, Scottish poet Jamie (The Overhaul), whose mother had recently died, wonders about the nature of nature: “Where did it reside?... What are vaccinations for, if not to make a formal disconnection from some of these wondrous other species?” Her musings take her to the Arctic to witness the aurora borealis, a pathology lab to view microscopic tumor landscapes, and to ponder time and legend through a lunar eclipse while staring out her own window. But visits to harsh Scottish island landscapes predominate, with the unsolvable mysteries of whales, endangered birds, and lost human cultures serving as recurrent themes. At one point Jamie recognizes a whale she sighted earlier at an island 180 miles and a year away: “ ‘Believe what you see,’ say the eye-trained naturalists. Aye, right. Most of the time you’ll sound like an idiot. But once in a blue moon you might be right. You just might be making the same journeys as these other creatures, all of us alive at the same time on the planet.” 20 b&w photos. Agent: Peter Straus, Rogers, Coleridge, & White.

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      July 15, 2013
      A Scottish poet's eloquent meditations on nature and on the art of observing the world around her "even when there's nothing much to see." In this probing collection of 14 essays, Jamie (Poetry/Univ. of Stirling; The Overhaul, 2012, etc.) turns her imaginative gaze on the natural phenomena of the many wild places to which she has traveled. She begins with a sea cruise along the fjords of Greenland and a sighting of the aurora borealis. Awed by the spectacle, Jamie writes, "if we could taste the green aurora, it would fizz on the tongue and taste like creme de menthe." Her wandering footsteps led her to remote Scottish islands in the North Atlantic, prehistoric caves in Spain and whaling museums in Norway. With the help of the scientists, surveyors and naturalists with whom she traveled, Jamie honed her sensitivity to the environment even more keenly. She learned to understand the patterns engraved in stone, earth and bone that told stories about the land and sea and the humans who lived and sailed on both. Watching other creatures, from the fragile magpie moth to the majestic killer whale, gave her glimpses into natural laws that often escaped her understanding. Not one to stand apart from what she observes, Jamie examines her own relationship to the landscapes and living things she celebrates. Her life as a writer began when, as a disaffected teenager, she joined an archaeological dig in the Scottish Highlands. Probing the past inspired her to probe beneath the surface of things with words and eventually led her to poetry. Her mother's death many years later led her to scrutinize the human landscape from behind the lens of a hospital microscope. From there, she began to understand the connections that bind the Earth and everything in it and accept her own place in "the rough tribe of the mortal." A lyrical work of profound insight.

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      September 1, 2013
      Award-winning Scottish poet and essayist Jamie writes of her immersions in nature and history in 14 finely tooled, scrubbed, rinsed, and polished essays. As shrewdly bemused as she is intently observant, as imaginatively interpretive as she is curious, Jamie travels to the Arctic, where she ponders time, vastness, and vulnerability. Jamie excavates her memories of the summer following her graduation from high school, when she worked at an archaeological dig, gleaning experiences that inspire far-reaching musings about our ancestors, art, and burial. She visits a raucous island colony of gannets, where the seabirds seem timeless, though disconcerting bits of plastic are woven into their seaweed nests. Jamie becomes entranced by a magnificent collection of suspended whale skeletons in a Norwegian museum and enchanted by the moon's pewtery, equalizing light. So fully does she give herself over to all that she witnesses, so unexpected are her perceptions, that Jamie's lustrous essays recharge our appreciation not only for the world's beauty and mystery but also for the gift poetic writers such as Jamie possess for translating sensory input into gloriously calibrated, revelatory language.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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