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 weresimultaneouslyon 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."Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for over fifty years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include "The Logos of Heraclitus," "Feeling Our Feelings," "Homage to Americans," "The Music of the Republic," "Un-Willing," "Then and Now," and "Homeric Moments" (all published by Paul Dry Books).

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