Description
Book SynopsisWhat is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain - on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? This book considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light and luminosity on place.
Trade Review"Beautifully conceived and written. Sallis engages the elemental interplay of earth and sky, translucence and obscurity, airiness and density, height and depth, wet and dry, gods and mortals, storms and clouds, rivers and fog, plains and mountains-nature in its expansive, indefinable materiality and ephemeral intangiblity." -Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University "A profound and exceptionally nuanced piece of writing that brings philosophy and art into close proximity. Decades of Sallis's remarkable philosophical thinking are at work and play." -Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Anagoge
1. Clouds
2. Caves
3. Exorbitant Points
4. Poseidon
5. Blues
6. City of Lights
7. Time's Shadow
8. The Light Spread of Time
9. Heights
10. Summer Snow
11. Dark Light
12. At Sea
13. Seacoves
14. Sunspots
15. Visible Time
16. Wild
17. Quiet
18. White
