ASP Podcast #14: Hank Lentfer, The Art of Listening
Hank and Richard Nelson. photo: Liz McKenzie
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Show Notes: Hank Lentfer, The Art of Listening
Stunning recordings from the natural world of Alaska
Hank's story of his "acoustic awakening"
An iconic recording of a Loon with Richard Nelson
Several of Hank's favorite recordings and the stories behind them
Hearing, Listening and the Art of Listening
Robin song: getting to know individuals
A wolf howl and a Malamute's response
The Art of Listening and being human
Recording a whale trumpeting with perfect amphitheater acoustics
Hank is in close collaboration with author Kathleen Dean Moore. Hank contributed a video and sound recordings to the author’s recent book launch of Earth’s Wild Music
Raven’s Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
Hank Lentfer, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2020)
Winner: Grand Prize: Banff Mountain Book Awards
This book makes me want to ponder over our connections with nature and the meaning of spirituality for each one of us. Such is the power of its quality of writing and the subject of the book, Richard K. Nelson. There can never be enough of books like this .A lifetime spent in wilderness must be written about, and celebrated, read by young people everywhere. For this universality alone, Raven’s Witness is deserving of a Grand Prize. Congratulations to Hank!
– Nandini Purandare, 2020 Book Competition Jury
Raven’s Witness is the Alaska book I’ve waited lifelong to read. Hank Lentfer’s gorgeous account of the evolution of Richard K. Nelson’s life and thought is a godsend. Half a century ago Nelson realized how wrong it was to send Native Alaskans our teachers when we should be begging theirs to teach us, and Lentfer describes the ways he came to live that realization. -- David James Duncan
“Richard Nelson arrived in the Arctic in pursuit of survival skills. Alaska taught him something else entirely.” ‘Raven’s Witness’ Review: Wisdom and Ecstasy, Review, Wall Street Journal
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