Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse

In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. With lyrical precision and eerie clarity, Dillard's essay presented in this new edition from Silver Press evokes the strangeness of the shifting sky and the psychic dislocation that descends with the shadow. The quiet yet epic unravelling of the familiar becomes revelation: a rupture in time, a confrontation with mortality and a brush with the sublime. Juxtaposing the cosmic and the mundane, Total Eclipse meditates on the limits of perception and language, entering the surreal intensity of the phenomenon to emerge with the brief, blazing clarity offered by darkness.
ISBN 9781068591884. Silver Press. pb. 32 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
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