In We Are Not Alone, writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams writes on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. Williams contemplates the idea of extinction and what it means to be the last of something. Artwork by Mary Frank accompanies Williams’ essay underscoring the notion of the interconnectedness of all species. 

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“We care because we have co-evolved with the living world of animals and plants and fungi and corals and multitudes of microorganisms, many of which have never been seen or defined, or categorized or named.” – Terry Tempest Williams

What My Body Knows

Text by Terry Tempest Williams
Artwork by Mary Frank

2022

As a companion to their first collaboration with Eakins Press, A Burning Testament, Terry Tempest Williams and Mary Frank use their deep artistic and moral affinity to bring us What My Body Knows. The Earth is under constant threat. Nature is degraded by human activity in ever more violent and careless ways. Williams’s text is as much an urgent acknowledgment of our collective responsibility as it is a moving metaphor aligning the female body, her own body, with Earth. These are subjects that have been the essence of Mary Frank’s work for six decades. “It is time to lay our bodies down on the Mother and defend her creation. We breathe—we breathe ourselves back into the insistence of Beauty. Our tears will fall as rain in the desert, in sorrow and relief. We will rise, drenched in joy, and lead. Our bodies on Earth, of Earth, for Earth will be fearless—keening and singing, chanting and dancing, circling the planet in defiance and prayer, as our stay against extinction, both human and wild. We locate the pulse that refuses to cease—because what my body knows is: Life follows life.”–Terry Tempest Williams

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A Burning Testament

Text by Terry Tempest Williams
Artwork by Mary Frank

2020

A Burning Testament presents text by the writer and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams with illustrations by the artist Mary Frank. It is the newest and most urgent in a long line of collaborations between these two brilliant artists. A Burning Testament is a passionate plea and a manifesto in defense of the earth, and specifically Williams’s American West, written in the midst of the unprecedented, deadly, and widespread fires of this past fall. Williams’s text inspired an outpouring of resonant images from Mary Frank, which are brought together in this modest format – something like a secular prayer book from the cathedral of nature.

A portion of this text appeared in a special episode of The Daily, a New York Times podcast, on September 18, 2020, hosted and produced by Bianca Giaever.

“Let this be a humble tribute, an exaltation, an homage, and an open-hearted eulogy to all we are losing to fire, to floods, to hurricanes and tornadoes and the invisible virus that has called us all home and brought us to our knees. We are not the only species that lives and loves and breathes on this miraculous planet called Earth.” –Terry Tempest Williams

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