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Eva Saulitis


Died
January 16, 2016

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Genre
Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry


Eva Saulitis was the author of the forthcoming book, "Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas," (Beacon Press, 2012). She has studied whales in Prince William Sound, the Kenai Fjords, and Alaska's Aleutian Islands for the past twenty-four years. In addition to her scientific publications, her essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in numerous national journals, including Orion, Crazyhorse, and Prairie Schooner. The author of the essay collection Leaving Resurrection and the poetry collection Many Ways to Say It, she taught at Kenai Peninsula College, in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Alaska, and at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. She lived in Homer, Alaska. ...more

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Average rating: 4.4 · 738 ratings · 127 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Into Great Silence: A Memoi...
4.38 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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Becoming Earth
4.53 avg rating — 74 ratings — 5 editions
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Leaving Resurrection
4.34 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Prayer in Wind
4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Many Ways to Say It
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“Alone I wandered between worlds, the objective world of species, natural history and names, and the subjective world of symbols and signs.”
― Eva Saulitis, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
tags: nature, science
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“The only way to be changed is to let another being (or place) completely in, to love with a wild, dangerous abandon, knowing the outline of the hole it will make is already being formed.”
― Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth
tags: death, mortality
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“Maybe this is the beginning of healing, the repeated lick of the tide, like an animal worrying a wound clean and raw.”
― Eva Saulitis, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
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