Description
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.'
Please see selling points. Also, in marketing the book, the publisher will refer to a few models: Merrill Gilfillan's Magpie Rising: Sketches of the Great Plains (for its energetic and compact style), Ciaran Carson's The Star Factory (interconnected essays on Belfast) and of course Thoreau's Walden.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781933527222
Author Devin Johnston
Format Paperback
Page Count 101
Imprint Turtle Point Press
Publisher Turtle Point Press
Weight(grams) 168g
Please see selling points. Also, in marketing the book, the publisher will refer to a few models: Merrill Gilfillan's Magpie Rising: Sketches of the Great Plains (for its energetic and compact style), Ciaran Carson's The Star Factory (interconnected essays on Belfast) and of course Thoreau's Walden.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781933527222
Author Devin Johnston
Format Paperback
Page Count 101
Imprint Turtle Point Press
Publisher Turtle Point Press
Weight(grams) 168g
