Animal, Mineral, Radical by Bk Loren

Animal, Mineral, Radical by Bk Loren

"Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis,, meaning radish, a root vegetable."-BK Loren

These meditative essays range in subjects from a transcendental encounter with a pack of coyotes ironically juxtaposed with her neighbor's claim that nature "has gone out of vogue," to Loren's mother's slow yet all-encompassing deterioration from Parkinson's, and the unexpected way the Loma Prieta earthquake eroded her depression by offering the author a sense of her small place in a wild and worthwhile world.

Loren has an empathetic and gentle approach to the world. In detailing the intricacies of human relationships and consciousness-fear of death and time, cooperation born of clashing viewpoints, tradition's beauty even when destructive, a love of language, a sense of loss amid the fast-paced materialistic world-she peels back the film of popular thinking in order to expose herself to the secrets so few of us ever see.

BK Loren has worked as a naturalist, an assistant chef, a ranch hand, a furniture maker, a UPS driver, and a college professor, among other occupations. She studied writing at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and now teaches at Chatham University's low-residency program, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and other locations across North America. She is the author of Stolen, a novel that won the Mary Roberts-Rinehart National Fellowship. Three times she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Loren lives in Colorado with her partner, two dogs, and two cats.

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ISBN 13	9781619020733
ISBN 10	1619020734
Title	Animal, Mineral, Radical
Author	Bk Loren
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2013-02-12
Number of pages	220
Prizes	Winner of Colorado Book Award (Creative Nonfiction) 2014
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