Falling Into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home
Autor Catherine Reiden Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iul 2015
It s not easy, Catherine Reid writes, to love a person and a place in equal measure. Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native New Englander combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena whether bird hibernation, the arrival of fishers in suburbia, or the explosion of amphibious life in the wet weeks of spring is captured in writing that pays as much attention to the sounds of a sentence as to the rhythms of the landscapes she wanders.
Ultimately, Reid finds herself having to choose between her farmhouse near the Berkshires and a job in the South, between her known role in the land s stories and a new story yet to be written. Solace comes from companions as varied as a praying mantis, an otter, and her hundred-year-old grandmother, while resilience shows up in the stories of streams recovering from toxic spills and in communities weathering floods and town meetings. Reid celebrates the joyous engagement that comes with developing a deep connection with the places we call home and the life human, animal, botanical that surrounds us. At the same time, she offers keen insights into the way nature ultimately remains mysterious, beyond our knowing.
Sensuous and provocative, "Falling into Place" faces the beauty and challenges of our changing world head-on."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807061183
ISBN-10: 0807061182
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Beacon Press
ISBN-10: 0807061182
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Beacon Press
Notă biografică
Cuprins
Song Heart Rail
Water Rhythms
Tides
Ox Blink
Rescue
Salamander Crossing
Disquiet
Hitched, Massachusetts, 2004
Reliance
How to Become a Generalist
Companions
Deciphering Bird
Interventions
Catch and Release
Thoreau Alone Won’t Do
After a Sweet Singing Fall Down
Wild Geese and Other Nostalgias
When a Fox Skull No Longer Points Home
The Quiet House Is a Sudden Thing
Resilience
Acknowledgments
Notes
Water Rhythms
Tides
Ox Blink
Rescue
Salamander Crossing
Disquiet
Hitched, Massachusetts, 2004
Reliance
How to Become a Generalist
Companions
Deciphering Bird
Interventions
Catch and Release
Thoreau Alone Won’t Do
After a Sweet Singing Fall Down
Wild Geese and Other Nostalgias
When a Fox Skull No Longer Points Home
The Quiet House Is a Sudden Thing
Resilience
Acknowledgments
Notes