Heart of the Sound

Marybeth Holleman has taught in the creative writing and literary arts department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the editor, with Anne Coray, of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment and the author of Alaska's Prince William Sound: A Traveler's Guide. She lives in Anchorage.

• ProloguePART IParts Unknown: 1986DuckLocus Amatus: 1986-1988ThunderPART IIStruck: 1989GoatBlood on the Hands: 1989SeasAwakening: 1991SwimRising Tides: 1993Nellie JuanStorm Warning: 1994WetAshes: 1996Observation PointPART IIIFireweedBull's-Eye: 1996CommunicatingRestoration: 1997CloudsIn This Light: 1997OtterAB Pod: 1997BearScars We Notice: 1997-1999HummingbirdParadise Falls: 1999EpilogueAcknowledgments

"The Heart of the Sound is one of those rare books that calls to mind a true sense of place."—E Magazine "[Holleman] writes beautifully, poetically, of the need to care for the Earth. It is an environmental masterpiece."—Deseret Morning News "Part celebration, part quest, part hard-hitting critical debate, The Heart of the Sound floats us into wondrous new territory. In this graceful meditation about love, loss, and learning, Holleman's prose shimmers like sunlight on clear water."—Nancy Lord, author of Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life "This book has it all: an original, compelling story; lyrical, evocative prose; a clear-eyed and passionate storyteller. It has true transformative power."—Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "A love song to one of earth's loveliest and most threatened places intertwined with human loves, disappointments, and healing. An extraordinary book full of wonder and passion and a courageous story about the heart of Prince William Sound and about sounding the depths of our own hearts."—David W. Orr, author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse "Beautiful writing about Prince William Sound, like one long love poem . . . a story about a place that breaks your heart, and breaks it again."—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood