This collection explores materials and memories gathered from sites of tragedy.

Written in collaboration with glaciers, these luminous poems are elegies and love songs, celebrations and laments. They are plein air poems, written outdoors and illuminated by shifts of light, wind, sound, and scent. As our world moves from ice to water, these poems move, too: cycling from grief to love to joy and back again, along the way asking how to withstand and transform.

Both a poet and a visual artist, Molnar focuses on place-based memory throughout her work. Memory of a Larger Mind is part of a project in which she explores the histories and futures of “sacrifice zones” (clear cuts, concentration camps, dying glaciers). She travels to these places, writing and gathering flowers, rocks, water, and bones. In her studio, she transforms these foraged materials into pigments for her art and memories for her writing. The resulting art and poetry are vessels of transformation in which grief might shift to love, and difficult pasts transition into more peaceful futures.