UA Poetry Center
Gretel Ehrlich reads from and discusses the process of collaboration on Arctic Heart (1992), a series of poems composed for a ballet. She also reads excerpts from "The Fasting Heart," an essay on destruction and abundance in the natural world, collected in Islands, The Universe, Home (1991).
Recording cuts out briefly from 46:19 to 46:23.
Ehrlich, Gretel. "Resolute Passage." Arctic Heart. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992.
"Four." Arctic Heart. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992.
"Twelve." Arctic Heart. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992.
Excerpts from "The Fasting Heart." Islands, the Universe, Home. New York: Viking, 1991.