In the Mind's Eye: Essays across the Animate World. Elizabeth Dodd

In the Mind's Eye: Essays across the Animate World



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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Page: 360
ISBN: 0803215665, 9780803215665

From Publishers Weekly

In these exquisitely rendered essays, Dodd (Archetypal Light) explores the intersections of the arts and the natural world, often coming up with unexpected and insightful conclusions. Dodd serves as an inviting guide to everything from the ancient mammoth cave paintings of Chauvet in France to the joys of owning a wood-stove. Drawing from various sources, Dodd creates a cohesive network of connections between mediums and ideas, as in the essay Cañonicity, which smoothly interweaves personal reflections on the southwestern landscape with an analysis of Georgia O'Keeffe's early paintings of that region. Dodd's adventures and reflections often center on the desire to understand the world inhabited by our primitive ancestors. In essays such as Aspects, in which she searches for a mastodon cave drawing in Moab, Utah, she ponders the past with an acute melancholy. Dodd displays her English professor chops in the essay Cold Meditations, which contemplates the world of Beowulf in relation to the author's personal isolation and study of nature. Most characteristically, In Situ combines a stirring travelogue through Colorado with prolonged meditations on the wider meanings of art. (Sept.)
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*Starred Review* Dodd, an award-winning poet and essayist, travels to places where art and nature merge and embarks on journeys of the imagination and intellect that deliver us to new vistas on the mindscape. Fascinated by rock art, she follows the etched footprints and handprints left by the ancient people of the canyon lands of the Southwest and descends into the magical illustrated caves of France. Pondering the connection between our bipedal walking and our bicameral brain, Dodd also visits the restored Aztec ruins of El Tajín and immerses herself in Beowulf, attempting to fathom the world in which it was composed. She returns to her hometown, Athens, Ohio, and maps the topography of memory, and she follows young Georgia O’Keeffe’s trail as she ventured out into the dramatic landscape surrounding Canyon, Texas, the inspiration for early watercolors, which, in turn, sparked an art scandal. Other inquiries lead Dodd to the Appalachian woods, dinosaur tracks in Colorado, and eagles’ nests in Kansas. Each chronicle of a foray out into the world and deep into thought is conceptually creative, finely rendered, utterly confident and spirited, and provocatively illuminating. The highest form of mind-travel. --Donna Seaman



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