Gretel Ehrlich
American poet
Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet and essayist .
Biography
Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California ,[ 4] she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace of Open Spaces , a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming.[ 5] Her first novel was also set in Wyoming, entitled Heart Mountain (1988), about a community being invaded by an internment camp for Japanese Americans .
One of Ehrlich's best-received books is a volume of creative nonfiction essays called Islands, The Universe, Home. Her characteristic style of merging intense, vivid, factual observations of nature with a wryly mystical personal voice is evident in this work.[ 6] Other books include This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland [ 7] [ 8] and two volumes of poetry.
In 1991 Ehrlich was hit by lightning and was incapacitated for several years. She wrote a book about the experience, A Match to the Heart , which was published in 1994.[ 9] Since 1993, she has traveled extensively, especially through Greenland ,[ 10] Japan[ 11] and western China .[ 12] [ 10]
Her work is frequently anthologised, including The Nature Reader . She has also received many grants. In 1991, she collaborated with British choreographer Siobhan Davies , writing and recording a poem cycle for a ballet that opened in the Southbank Centre in London .[ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
Selected bibliography
To Touch the Water , Ahsahta Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-916272-16-6
The Solace of Open Spaces , Viking Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-670-80678-2 ; Ehrlich, Gretel (21 February 2017). 2017 edition . Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-5040-4288-8 .
Heart Mountain , Viking Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-670-82160-0 ; Ehrlich, Gretel (21 February 2017). 2017 edition . Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-5040-4286-4 .
Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories from Wyoming , Capra Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-88496-315-8 ; 2005 edition . U of Nebraska Press. January 2005. ISBN 0-8032-6754-1 .
Islands, the Universe, Home , Viking Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-670-82161-7
Arctic Heart: A Poem Cycle , Capra Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-88496-357-8
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning , Pantheon Books, 1994, ISBN 978-0-679-42550-2 ; Ehrlich, Gretel (June 1995). 1995 ebook edition . Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4406-2108-6 .
John Muir: Nature's Visionary , National Geographic Society, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7922-7954-9 book jacket, courtesy of sierraclub.org
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland , Pantheon Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-679-44200-4
The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold , Pantheon Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-375-42251-5
In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape , National Geographic Society, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4262-0574-3
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami , Pantheon, 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-90731-8 ; Ehrlich, Gretel (11 March 2014). 2014 pbk edition . Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 978-0-307-94927-1 .
”Unsolaced: Among the Way to All That Is”, Pantheon, 2021[ 16] ISBN 978-0-307-91179-7
References
^ "review of This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich" . PublishersWeekly.com . 2001.
^ " 'This Cold Heaven' " . NPR . 2001-12-21.
^ PEN New England - Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing
^ Library Thing
^ Moore, Judith (December 1, 1985). "review of The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich" . The New York Times . p. 41, Section 7.
^ "review of Islands, the Universe, Home by Gretel Ehrlich" . Kirkus Reviews . 1991-10-01.
^ Diski, Jenny (2002-02-16). "Review: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich" . the Guardian .
^ Birnbaum, Robert (2001-12-28). "Gretel Ehrlich Interview (This Cold Heaven )" . Identity Theory . Remembering Robert Birnbaum by Matt Borondy, December 8, 2023 Robert Birnbaum was a journalist and a longtime friend of Howard Zinn .
^ Hass, Robert (June 26, 1994). "review of A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich" . The Washington Post .
^ a b "Gretel Ehrlich, Panelist" . January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar . Retrieved 2024-01-11 .
^ Ehrlich, Gretel (2013). "Japan, After the Wave" . Orion Magazine .
^ "review of Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist by Gretel Ehrlich" . Publishers Weekly . 1997.
^ The Archive of Siobhan Davies Dance - Arctic Heart Archived 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 18 November 2015.
^ Mussoorie Writers - Gretel Ehrlich Archived 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 18 November 2015.
^ Braided River: Gretel Ehrlich - Essayist . Retrieved on 18 November 2015.
^ "Gretel Ehrlich discusses her book, Unsolaced , with Frances McCue" . YouTube . Elliott Bay Book Company . February 1, 2021. (See Frances McCue .)
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