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"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose, studded with arresting phrases and breathtakingly beautiful images....[T]he impressions that linger after closing her book are not of suffering but of joy, not of change, but of the flow of incident halted, over and over, by the masterful hand of an artist who sketches with tender words the small miracles of a vast universe."

Wendy Smith, Washington Post, 09/20/2009

"[Ackerman] sheds light on the waking world, exploring dawn through science, mythology, art and etymology and her observations. A naturalist and poet, [she] loves the world around her and the language used to describe it with equal passion, and her writing is as invigorating as a lungful of cool morning air."

Gayle Brandeis, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/18/2009