Open Secrets / Inward Prospects

Open Secrets / Inward Prospects: Reflections On World And Soul / 435-page hardback / 4.5" x 7" / ISBN 978-1-58988-019-1 / Publication Date: October 2004 In her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. Open Secrets / Inward Prospects divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of internal vistas and omens, wherein she looks at herself as a sample soul. Often the aphorisms balance opposing thoughts, as if the writer were—simultaneously—on both ends of the seesaw. In the preface Eva Brann describes her manner of composition: "I wrote these thoughts down on about two thousand sheets, two to three thoughts per paper, and I kept them in some used manila envelopes, the earliest of which bore a postmark of 1972." "Open Secrets / Inward Prospects is a book of thoughts of one who thinks about everything. Such a person has a fascinatin