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is probably not for everyone, but I really, really, liked it,

This was definitely not for me, I thought the poems were well written, but I can only embrace nature so much, Many Ways to Say It, a collection of lyric poems, is a series of prayers, cries, dispatches, observational records, secret messages, weather reports, daily logs, love poems, trespasses, confessions, letters, and songs.
 A trained marine biologist, Eva Saulitis uses poetry as a tool to push past the laws of biologyobjectivity and detachmentto get as close as she can get to the harsh inner and outer place she calls home.
Though chosen, for her, place requires constant renegotiation and exploration, Living for more than two decades in coastal Alaska is like an arranged marriage, rife with ambivalence and risk, desire and loss.
The poems portray the difficult process of this kind of marriage, of “marrying this chunk of earth / the seasons, mud, and crackup.
” Close observation of natural phenomena is both the poets and the biologists method, Thus these poems are dispatches from inner and outer wilderness: whiteouts, mountain tops, swamps, muskegs, ecotones, and woods, The lover, a second character in the poems, is human and animal, flesh and mineral, mind and earth, heart and weather.
Ultimately, Many Ways to Say It is an unscientific investigation into the wild animal that is the self, its contradictions, urges, demands, and terrors, and its desire for selfdefinition.
But it is only by studying the wild withoutthrough encounters with, say, a moose, a mountain, a coyote, a pondthat the poet comes to terms with the wild, and untouchable, within.
Eva Saulitis was the author of the forthcoming book, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas, Beacon Press,.
She has studied whales in Prince William Sound, the Kenai Fjords, and Alaskas 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, Eva

Saulitis was the author of the forthcoming book, "Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas," Beacon Press,.
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, sitelink.