"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."―Washington PostIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, and poetry in order to celebrate that moment in which the deepest arcades of life and matter become visible. From spring in Ithaca, New York, to winter in Palm Beach, Florida,Dawn Lightis an impassioned call to revel in our numbered days on a turning earth. ALos Angeles TimesFavorite Book,BooklistEditors Choice Award, Spirituality and Practice Best of 2009,Library Corner Best of List, andSan Francisco ChronicleBest Book of 2009. 8 pages four-color illustrations