Leaving Resurrection: Eva Saulitis

Posted At : August 11, 2008 1:00 AM
Related Categories: Science & Social Science,Alaska

Excerpted from Leaving Resurrection by Eva Saulitis and published by Red Hen Press.

Read by Eva Saulitis, an essayist, poet and biologist living in Homer, Alaska. Eva's first book is Leaving Resurrection (Boreal Books, 2008), a collection of lyrical essays about the natural world. The website for our killer whale research work is www.whalesalaska.org.

This is Eva Saulitis, and this piece is from my essay "To the Reader Who, From the Eternal Present, Asks About the Oil Spill."

"...the killer whales' lives go on in every weather, storm or fair, and, it seems, against the odds, for now -- lucky, lucky, blessed us -- they carry on. That's the present tense that matters. And yes, the oil seeps into every sentence, every observation, every breath. But the present tense is real. Reader, it's the sacred grail, the pot of gold, the pearl without price. And today, in this holy present -- August 11, noon -- in the lee of Knight Island, this place and these animals endure."

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