Naming the Light
Subtitle: A WEEK OF YEARS (Creative Nonfiction)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252065729
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Collections Of Monographs, Essays (Multi-Subject); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Nature/Ecology; American - General; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; General
First sentence: We need to sense green life.
Description: Naming the Light is about places and people, books and music and travel, gardening and astronomy. Some essays examine Rosemary Deen's experience of finding herself well placed, at home in an old house with rambling gardens in New York's Catskill region. Others travel out to remote worlds, then bring them next door through the author's power of imagination.

Deen sees human experience as part of a system alive with continuity between nature and culture - its worms and its cathedrals, its weather and its cantatas - all one, like a giant plant or a richly woven tapestry.