Off Izaak Walton Road The grace that comes through loss
Book - 2025
"Loss and sorrow can overwhelm even the strongest person, forcing them to reckon with their emotions whether they want to or not. In this extraordinary debut, Laura Julier recounts her reckoning, which took place in an old cabin tucked away on a hidden and forgotten gravel road along the Iowa River. In company with silence and snow, with eagles, owls, and a host of other birds, Julier finds solace and begins to emerge from the dark corners of grief. Over time, she comes to understand she cannot bury grief or turn aside from loss but must walk in its presence, awake and humble, until, at last, she finds her own wholeness within it"--Back cover.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
Autobiographies - Published
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 276 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780826367716
- Preface: Holy place
- Overture: Early March, off Izaak Walton Road
- Part I. Show Fire Silence
- Once 1 owned a house
- This is not the place
- It began like this
- Izaak Walton Road
- Loss
- Days' waning light
- Leaving
- Part II. Wind Wood Memory
- On the walls 1
- The cabin
- The gift
- On the mantel
- Sleeping with animals
- On the walls 2
- The space outside
- Derecho
- Part III. Sky Road X Blood
- January
- Woodstoves
- Massacre at the cabin, or Where's the carcass?
- Bald eagles
- The owl
- Where in I rescue the latest mouse
- In which no good deed goes unpunished
- A pleasant interlude
- The wisdom of cliché
- Things have come to this
- In which pride goeth before a fall
- Listening to the river
- Bald eagles, again
- Seeing birds
- A reaction delayed
- Bird notes 1: I begin to pay attention
- We walk the road
- Bird notes 2: By the book
- Bird notes 3: The body knows before knowing remembers
- City girl
- Neighbors
- The barred owl, again
- The marsh
- Bird notes 4: If you ignore it, they will come
- Rising thermals
- In the ditches
- The wildlife inside
- In which I am taunted
- I step outside in late June
- In which I finally outsmart the cat
- The last rescue
- Leaving, again
- Season end
- Part IV. Earth Marsh Skin
- Going home
- The marsh, differently
- Accident or refuge
- Izaak Walton's league
- Rescue
- Roadkill
- Garbage
- Target
- Johnson County Quarry
- Izaak and I, fishing
- Ownership
- James McCollister's farm
- First records
- First nations
- First flood: From Devonian sea to the river outside my door
- Ownership, differently
- Part V. River Night Prayer
- In the middle of the river
- River's sludge
- The river's course
- Damming the river
- The flood of the century
- As long as you choose to live here
- Wetlands
- On the river
- Part VI. The Locked Cabin, The Swollen River, The Riven Road, The Open Heart
- I am locked out
- The next house and the next
- Circling
- The river reclaims the land
- After the flood
- The open heart
- Acknowledgments