Naming the Light: A Week of Years by Rosemary Deen

Marilyn Hacker recommends
Naming the Light: A Week of Years, essays by Rosemary Deen: "These essays mostly begin with the natural world near at hand: the author's rambling garden in Ulster County, New York. But they range and reach out the way a brilliantly polymath mind does: to Florentine painting, American rural architecture, medieval polyphony, the origins of words, the Elgin marbles, the varieties of human love-and they're everywhere made fresh and surprising by the author's deft, lyrical, accurate prose, a virtuoso performance on a lovingly crafted instrument." (Illinois)