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She graduated from the university of iowa with an mfa in creative nonfiction. This book represents a major breakout of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that. A fantastic assemblage of rude, lewd, barbaricallybrutish, and crude poetry that i have deliberately, rigorously, preciselymeticulously, and thoughtfully plopped on paper for you, her, that guy over there, and your ugly neighbor in the tree who keeps peeking into your window while you shower. A series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to farflung celestial bodiesconsidering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to the connection of exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbersto rekindle our communion with the wild world. Things that are essays by amy leach beaver water scribd. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. She has been recognised with the whiting writers award and a rona jaffe foundati. She won a 2008 rona jaffe foundation writers award. Of all the wondrous things that are catalogued in this brave little book, the most wondrously fresh and novel may be the uncanny ms. A series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to farflung. A series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to farflung celestial bodiesconsidering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to the connection of exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbersto rekindle our.
A collection of twentysix essays like nothing youve ever seen before, things that are by amy leach manages to bring together seemingly opposed ways of approaching the natural world in a brilliant, moving, and hilarious victory. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her. Things that are is not specifically of the animal, the human, or the phenomenal. Concerned as it is with the natural world and the oneness of the universe, it collapses categories.
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