Climates of Extremes

Landscape and Imagination
by Marilyn Stablein


ISBN 978-0930773-380
ISBN 0-930773-39-X

 

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In her first collection of essays since her award winning book The Census Taker, Marilyn Stablein takes us on a personal journey of cataclysm and terrain. From the preface: "The Far West is a region of intimidation. The potential for destruction both tempers and unnerves . . . those who live there. The Oakland-Berkeley Hills firestorm came within a half mile of my house. . . . Weather is inseparable from the landscape it affects. There are landscapes of destruction, of earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes and blizzards; and interior landscapes, the climate of closed spaces, the weather of dreams, memory and imagination."

What the Critics are Saying

Praise for Marilyn Stablein’s Novel The Census Taker:

"[Stablein] brings a fresh, appreciative eye to a set of national images . . . her ironic stance provides a novel experience."

            -- Publisher's Weekly

"Stablein has applied her whimsical Western eye to the mystical East . . . conveying so much droll irony in that simple juxtaposition of viewpoints."

            -- Quarterly West


Table of Contents

Preface: Landscapes of Impermanence
Deep in the Forests of Home
Waves
Deceptions in Gray
Upwind, Downwind
After the Hurricane
Two Men From the Sea
The Big Quake
Dreaming and Driving
If the Plane Goes Down
Fire in the Hills Above Home
Shelter of Bone, Shelter of Flesh
Whales Trapped in the Ice
Intrusions in Ice
The Rain Garage
Wet Babies
Ghost Beach
A Descent into Winter