Other ReiAt Cosmoetica, Eiseley's essays exerted an ongoing influence on Dan Schneider. The way humans inflect themselves into the world & attach themselves to things in an attempt to create metaphor unconsciously is something Loren Eiseley is … [Read more]
Michael Antman on Eiseley’s Snail Trail
In a 2010 essay written for the magazine PopMatters, Michael Antman considers aspects of Eiseley that emerge from The Star Thrower collection. Antman is struck not only by Eiseley's writing but by what that writing was not: Because his writing … [Read more]
“The Star Thrower” Vezari Studios Three-Minute Short Film [video]
The starfish cannot return to the sea by themselves. But there's more starfish on this beach than you can ever save. Surely you can't expect to make a difference. . . . They will end up washed back up on the shore again. What difference does it … [Read more]
Verse Trends in “Notes of an Alchemist”
In the early 1970's Eiseley's later poetry began to see print. The first volume, Notes of an Alchemist (1972) signaled a major departure from Eiseley's tightly controlled early verse. The new pieces moved in free forms . . . From the book, Loren … [Read more]
Eiseley and Surrealism
In one essay, Eiseley imagines a scene around a question asked by a young student during an Eiseley lecture on evolution. Instead of the words, I hear a faint piping, and see an eager scholar's face squeezing and dissolving on the body of a … [Read more]
An Unnatural Revelation from Eiseley’s “The Judgement of the Birds”
Recently I was referred to this passage from The Immense Journey (also the LorenEiseley.info Twitter handle @immensejourney). It deserves a re-read. Where Eiseley writes of the "worldwide radio network" and "great news services" substitute … [Read more]
How Flowers Changed the World
Earth Day, 2011 It was a short hop on the social network tree from James Fallows to the New America Foundation, and then to a 2006 NPR interview with Michael Lind on Eisley's Immense Journey essay on flowers. Lind was struck by Eiseley's essay "How … [Read more]
Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” Remembers Eiseley
There's little newsmaking in a "102nd" birthday for a dead person, but Garrison Keillor's team at the APR Writer's Almanac remembered Eiseley on today's broadcast. The brief bio of Eiseley highlighted the troubled and solitary prairie childhood, and … [Read more]
Auden and Eiseley: Poet v. Poet or Poet v. Scientist?
All the Strange Hours was Eiseley's autobiography, which was published in 1975, only two years before his death. One essay that tries to interpret Eiseley's writing using material drawn from Hours and elsewhere begins with a recollection of a New … [Read more]
Stream Energy
In reality, I am not of this persuasion. We are not to be found among the stones, we have been the stream. And it is the stream, not the colliding boulders, that metaphor. Only the way, only makes up a life. Without the torrent the boulders do not … [Read more]
