In a lyrical memoir and meditation on the nature of time and place, Elizabeth Dodd explores a variety of landscapes, reading the records left by inhabitants and by time itself. In spring in the Yucatán peninsula, she marks the equinox among the ruins of the Maya. In summer in the Orkney Islands, she considers linguistic and historic connections with Icelandic sagas. In tallgrass country in the fall, she observes bison and black-footed ferrets returning to their ancestral landscape. In winter in the canyons of the Ancestral Puebloans, she notes the standstill positions of the sun and the moon.
Introduction: Solstitial -- The here and now -- Belt of Venus -- Geochronicity -- Assemblage -- Standstill -- Ruin -- Megalithic north -- The middle fork -- Sinuous -- Long count -- Isogloss -- Constellation.
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