Time as landscape
How many of us live day to day doling out time fretfully! I liked this alternative, easy, generous, striding engagement...
Light-poor desert
Elsewhere I have highlighted Lopez’s use of desert images in an Arctic context. Here it’s used to refer to a...
Frost-riven rubble
Rubble bespeaks a building site in a busy, messy, or war-torn city. The idea of its being splintered by frost...
Time in two dimensions
A striking metaphor for time hovering or collapsing, in two versions of a bird, alive and flying, or keeling and...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving...
Deep-keeled ice
An arresting image of ice grounding like a boat’s hull scraping a shallow sea-floor.
‘… the sound of deep-keeled ice...
Dish-shaped paws
Lopez writes of the animals he encounters in the Arctic with great respect and sensitivity, quietly questioning the distances of...
Nuannaarpoq
Can a word change a life? This Eskimo word changed mine and made me curious about a people who could...
Desert-colored shores
I liked this equatorial image transported to the Arctic to describe northern shores.
‘Desert-colored shores were never touched by Pleistocene...
The slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
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