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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies - Paperback

by Barbara Hurd
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara HurdSeries:Wormsloe Foundation Nature BooksPublish date:2017-10-01Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wormsloe Foundation Nature BooksISBN-13:9780820352954ISBN-10:820352950UPC:9780820352954Book Category:Literary Collections, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & HabitatsBook Topic:RiversSize:8.07 x 5.40 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCK7PMKZ7Y

Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.

As in Hurd's other books, the previously unknown or the barely known becomeless mysterious but still retain the quality of mystery. The book presumes that nature is a mix of the chaotic and the wondrous. It addresses worry and advocacy--worry about our carelessness that can destroy the balance of that mix and a cry for us to pay more attention to humanity's relationship to natural history.

Listen, be alert, it says without hectoring. Rivers, ferns, streams, birds all have a life that is delicate and worth preserving. Barbara Hurd is one of our finest environmental writers, and this book will please the choir and persuade those on the ambivalent edge.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wormsloe Foundation Nature BooksISBN-13:9780820352954ISBN-10:820352950UPC:9780820352954Book Category:Literary Collections, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & HabitatsBook Topic:RiversSize:8.07 x 5.40 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCK7PMKZ7Y
Barbara Hurd is the author of Stirring the Mud, Entering theStone, Walking the Wrack Line, and a collection of poetry, The Singer's Temple. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, the Yale Review, the Georgia Review, Orion, and Audubon. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, five PushcartPrizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Publisher: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books

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