Creaturely And Other Essays by Devin Johnston

Creaturely And Other Essays by Devin Johnston

The field of ecopoetics', 'literature and environment' and 'nature writing' have become increasingly popular. Consisting of eight essays written in a compact and vivid prose reminiscent of Hazlitt, Thoreau and Delamain, Creaturely crosses the border between humans and animals, seeking out intersections between culture and nature in the city parks and empty lots of St Louis.'

"The author puts forward a bracing theory of partial empathy...Johnston's searching book of thought-probes goes a long way toward allowing the reader the grounding that would allow him to make empathic contacts with the animals over which he ponders....Each time another animal becomes extinct a special and irretrievable way of looking at the world is gone....Perhaps the more people that read this book, the more this absence would be poignantly felt."—The Brooklyn Rail "Creaturely, like its subjects, eludes definition. It's a book of exquisite essays—or are they prose poems—that tessellate into something larger: a meditation, perhaps, or a vision. Johnston's subject is at once the absolute otherness of the creatures with whom we share the world's everyday spaces—dogs, owls, mice, squirrels, crows—and the worth of our attempts to get to know them. Modest, calm, and beautiful, this is an exceptional book."—Robert Macfarlane

Devin Johnston was born in 1970 and spent his early years in the piedmont of North Carolina. He has lived in Chicago where he was poetry editor for Chicago Review. He is the author of two previous books of poetry, Aversions and Telepathy, and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Sources (TPP, 2008).

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ISBN 13	9781933527222
ISBN 10	1933527226
Titel	Creaturely And Other Essays
Autor	Devin Johnston
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Turtle Point Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-09-17
Seitenanzahl	101
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