{"id":16876,"date":"2016-01-20T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/remembering-eva-saulitis\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:02:28","slug":"remembering-eva-saulitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/remembering-eva-saulitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Eva Saulitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Alaskan poet and marine biologist Eva Saulitis has died of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saulitis, who lived in Homer, was the author of several books of poetry and prose: \u201cLeaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist,\u201d \u201cMany Ways to Say It,\u201d \u201cInto Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss in the Realm of Vanishing Orcas,\u201d \u201cPrayer in Wind,\u201d and a not-yet-released book, \u201cBecoming Earth.\u201d She wrote a blog about her battle with metastic breast cancer, alaskanincancerland.blogspot.com. The most recent entry, from June 6, 2013, after she learned her cancer had returned and was incurable, is called \u201cWhen What I Feared Most Came to Pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen what I feared most came to pass, I walked into my love\u2019s arms. We wept. We looked around and into our lives. I thought, I have been given a heaven on earth. I have lived in paradise. There is nothing I want, nothing I would change, nowhere I would go. My bucket list is for more of what I have. It runneth over,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Later, \u201c&#8230;A terminal diagnosis can set a person apart in a culture that turns its gaze away from death. And yet increasingly, our culture seems to be changing, which seems wise, considering death is an integral aspect of life,\u201d she wrote in an Alaska Dispatch News \u201cWe Alaskans\u201d column in September of last year. \u201cAs a person with a terminal diagnosis, I have lived the pain of turning away from and rejecting the idea of my own death, and I have lived the surprising hope of turning toward my own death with curiosity, openness, sadness, wonder, and yes, fear. I have learned many things along the way, and it\u2019s in that spirit that I share this writing with other mortal beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her death has inspired poets, writers and and nature-lovers in Alaska and beyond to write about and remember her. Krista Langlois wrote a piece on Saulitis\u2019 passing in Orion Magazine, available at https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/2016\/01\/41954\/, and 49 Writers Executive Director Erin Hollowell wrote about her at http:\/\/49writers.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/remembering-eva-saulitis.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaskan poet and marine biologist Eva Saulitis has died of cancer. Saulitis, who lived in Homer, was the author of several books of poetry and prose: \u201cLeaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist,\u201d \u201cMany Ways to Say It,\u201d \u201cInto Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss in the Realm of Vanishing Orcas,\u201d \u201cPrayer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}