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Average rating: 4.08 · 25 ratings · 9 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Black Swan: Memory, Mid...

4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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“This landscape consists of Pablo Casals' cello and four turkey vultures riding the ribbon of warm air rising from the highway. Concrete forms for abstractions my mind can only grope at: the wings and blood, the blue and black and float and soar, the aching beauty.”
Anne Batterson, The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

“Only the bellying treetops surrounding the campground are darker than the sky. I let the light go without protest; I am so filled with it right now. It makes me feel transparent, like bright glass, like a window open wide.”
Anne Batterson, The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

“Touching the face of the wind, dark wings flex and ease. They read the wisps of clouds forming above them, the dark heaves of mountains below. Now the sudden bounce of a thermal, now the yank of a downdraft, The birds of my mind tilt and swing as I lie in the blue bus, until finally, their taut wings bank up against the wind and they streak out of my head, peeling off one by one, like canoes that have been pointing upstream, arcing back into the roll of the river.”
Anne Batterson, The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration



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