{"id":724,"date":"2012-02-27T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=724"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T19:04:55","slug":"siegel-robert-harold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/s\/siegel-robert-harold\/","title":{"rendered":"Siegel, Robert Harold"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert<\/a>by Mira Dock <\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n

SIEGEL, ROBERT HAROLD (1939-2012). Growing up in the Midwest, Robert Harold Siegel also spent time on Long Island’s Jones Beach, cruised the Caribbean, and sailed and whale-watched off the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and California. His Whalesong<\/em> trilogy is based on his underwater swimming in Lake Michigan. This fantasy cycle chronicles humpback whales and creates a fictional whale culture. Book One, Whalesong<\/em> (1981), recounts the youth and adulthood of a mythical whale, Hruna, who takes a Lonely Cruise and then the Plunge, a mystical journey in which he experiences the Whale of Light. Book Two, White Whale<\/em> (1991), recounts the life of Hruna’s offspring, Hralekana-Kolua, whose experiences include establishing friendship with a human boy, mating, and becoming gravely injured attempting to save his friend’s ship. In Book Three, The Ice at the End of the World<\/em> (1994), Hralekana-Kolua recovers, battles the mythical Kraken, rejoins his pod, and leads them through danger to new krill beds.<\/p>\n

Siegel’s poems, many about bodies of water, sailors, whales, and water creatures, appear in the collections The Beasts & the Elders<\/em> (1973) and In a Pig’s Eye<\/em> (1980).<\/p>\n

Whalesong<\/em> (1981)<\/p>\n

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White Whale<\/em> (1991)<\/p>\n

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The Ice at the End of the World<\/em> (1994)<\/p>\n

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keywords: white, male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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