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Terry Tempest Williams (Author)

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Seized by the beauty and mystery of Hieronymus Bosch's fifteenth-century Flemish masterpiece, The Garden of Delights, Terry Tempest Williams focuses her astute gaze on his medieval triptych as she would on a natural landscape. With spiritual candor, psychological immediacy, and exhilarating emotional intensity, she carries us into the world of Bosch's painting, uncovering the connections between his vision, the world it mirrors, and contemporary life.

Approaching Paradise, Williams re-enters the terrain of childhood, where the foundations of orthodoxy are built; Hell, in all its diabolical madness, allows her to reflect on the inherent dislocations of our lives; in The Garden, moving away from the dualities of Heaven and Hell, she sees personal engagement as its own form of prayer and celebrates the possibility of a living faith right here on earth. And in Restoration, we meet two sisters, art conservators, who reveal their understanding of artistic vision.

Leap is an unexpected pilgrimage through the landscape of a painting that continues to startle five hundred years after its creation. It is also an utterly original account of one woman's search for the place where faith, passion, and creativity converge. Finally, Leap captures the alchemical moment of imagination -- the flight from the real to the poetic.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful
She may seem mad, but she's inside my head. 2 Jun 2000
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Terry Tempest Williams begins this book with a brief artistic description of her Mormon upbringing in Northern Utah (something I can relate with), then a confession of an obsession with a painting--a secret she had kept "for fear of seeming mad." From this point on she touched just about every emotion that I have felt in my own "Paradise" (oh the security of "knowing" that you belong to a church that has all the answers), my "Hell" (very traumatic to ask the hard questions concerning one's faith and emerge in a world of total uncertainty), my "Earthly Delights" (to find the middle ground between Heaven & Hell, good & bad, do's & don'ts; to find the present--the beauty of where I stand), and my "Restoration" (to try to piece it all together without losing the roots of who I am).

T.T.W. assisted me in coming out of my hell and finding earthly delights when I first read her book "Refuge" several years ago; I have personally thanked her for this. Now she writes a book with the final chapter titled "Restoration." After reading this beautiful, rambling, amazing, disjointed, wonderful collections of words, I may seem mad in saying this, but she is inside my head. I loved this book.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Intensely fascinating. 2 Aug 2000
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When do we ever take the time to stop and smell the roses, or to indulge our obsessions, or to give our inner voice the time it deserves? This author did all those things, and then went a step further in getting her observations and insights down. She's a smart and introspective writer and my mind is whirling from her journey with the painting. This is a risky book... she admits we may find her crazy, and I did at times. But being in her wild, cerebral, artistic zone was not boring or banal... this book is not a superficial beach read. It made me want to look harder and deeper at the world around me and to listen with attentive ears. Bravo! Bravo!
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
And you thought it was just a bizarre painting..... 30 May 2000
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Terry Tempest Williams. A new author for me. Because of my fascination for the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch I entered the door of this book much the way I'd join a lively discussion of a favorite topic. GOOD choice. This book is a very successful diversion that touches on so many viable excursions that it holds the reader in awe.

Williams is a terrific observor. Her extended encounter with Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is at once genuinely academic while acting as a springboard for stream of consciousness poetic and spiritual ramblings. What a word smith she is! The Prado Museum in Madrid, where the painting dwells, is a delicious maze of antiquity with all coridors leading to the kaleidoscopic joys of the Garden. She studies each panel of the famous altarpiece and shares her fears, vulnerabilities, and passions willingly. I felt at times I was in the darker side of a confessional booth, so personal is her communication. But aside from the luxuriant entertainment of her transmongrification of a painting, Williams also shares with us a strange journey through the history and philosophy of the Mormon Church - a fascinating subject I've never encountered in novel form.

Williams in the end has provided us with an uncommonly entertaining, even picaresque, journey through asethetics, art history, religion, and spiritualism, sharing with us the fact that Heaven, Hell, and especially our individual time on planet earth are creations of our own making. And all this from the meticulous study of a well known painting.......what a delightful feat!

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