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    612-822-4611

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Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

Loren, Bk

Paperback

Letters & EssaysEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing

ISBN10: 1619020734
ISBN13: 9781619020733
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Feb 12 2013
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: Colorado Book Award
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.

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