Approaching Ice Paperback by Elizabeth Bradfield

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2009-11-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892553556
• Item Weight: 159.61 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

“A deft naturalist with a keen eye for details of nature, human and nonhuman. . . . Bradfield’s poems delight.”—San Francisco Chronicle

This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures—Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth’s least-hospitable regions.

About the Author

Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro.  She has co-edited the anthologies Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020  (with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman) and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology and Poetry (with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Orion and have been widely anthologized. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize from the Publishing Triangle, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, her honors also include a Stegner Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Scholarship. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided, she lives on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and balances her work as a writer with work as a naturalist/field assistant at home and afar.