At least this is the advocacy I find in Eiseley and how deeply his writing has impacted my life. This indispensable collection is filled with marvelous autobiographical glimpses of Loren Eiseley at different points in his life-as a young, inquisitive man during the Depression, as an astute archaeologist, as a blossoming writer, and lastly, as a world-renowned observer and essayist. But to that we need to stop, to listen deeply, to watch with all our senses attuned, to seek out the small and out of the way or overlooked, to redeem with the witness and hand of our love, of God's love all creation as far as our wisdom and ability may carry us and not let politics or other such transitory and manufactured worries block such empathy. Such empathy and respect are timeless lessons, if only we could learn them.
Yet there is also dignity and honor toward those who have come before and the connection between such previous lives and our own is a constant theme in Eiseley's writings as is the dignity and value of each life on it's own no matter how unknown or isolated, brief or small. The fragility and dynamism of this life, our life, all life, is fully on display in this poem. POEMS/LOREN EISELEY I have not seen her in forty years. It is a well-known fact that there are probably half a dozen writers that you have been urging your friends. After growing up in Nebrasks, he became an anthropologist, naturalist, professor (at Penn State), philosopher, environmentalist, essayist and poet. The author, Loren Eiseley Books, Poems, and Essays Loren Eiseleys writing is a juxtaposition of his love of nature and his extraordinary talent with the written word. Poet and Naturalist Loren Eiseley (1907-1977).
Eiseley was one of those renaissance people. Eiseley published The Cabin in his book of poems - Notes of an Alchemist (1972).
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