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Terry Tempest Williams seeks the connection between devastation and redemption, as she struggles to find a metaphor to help her mourn her brother`s death with benevolence. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where she studies the craft of mosaics and le......more
Terry Tempest Williams seeks the connection between devastation and redemption, as she struggles to find a metaphor to help her mourn her brother`s death with benevolence. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where she studies the craft of mosaics and learns to appreciate the intricate wisdom of assemblage, wherein many separate parts, each having its own artistic jurisdiction, are combined to form a more magnificent whole. Back home in Utah, Williams finds a similar pattern of conjunction in the systematic chasms and the linguistic chattering of a group of endangered prairie dogs. Finally, she travels to Rwanda, site of some of the most abhorrent human depravity in recent memory, where she helps a group of survivors construct a memorial from the bones of victims. Williams`s form reflects her content, as this mesmerizing mosaic of language and emotions converges into a fractured portrait which maps a possible path to salvation.
- Author:
- Williams, Terry Tempest
- ISBN:
- 9780375725197
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 420
- Publish Date:
- 10/06/2009
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
- Language:
- English
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Starred ReviewWilliams (The Open Space of Democracy) travels to Ravenna, Italy, a town famous for its ancient mosaics, to "learn a new language with my hands." Back home in Utah, Williams views the lives of a clan of endangered prairie dogs--a species essential to the ecological mosaic of the grasslands and the creators of "the most sophisticated animal language decoded so far"--through the rules of Italian mosaics. After intimate study of a prairie dog town at Bryce Canyon, her visit to 19th-century prairie dog specimens at the American Museum of Natural History segues, dreamlike, to a glass case of bones from the genocide in Rwanda, where Williams, overwhelmed by the death of her brother but knowing that her "own spiritual evolution depended upon it," travels with artist Lily Yeh, who "understands mosaic as taking that which is broken and creating something whole," to build a memorial with genocide survivors. The book, itself a skillful, nuanced mosaic ("a conversation between what is broken... a conversation with light, with color, with form") uses this "way of thinking about the world" to convincingly "make the connection between racism and specism" and sensitively argues for respect for life in all its myriad forms. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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