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tangleroot_eli's review
3.0
Deming's prose is beautiful, and her insights occasionally profound, but the 4 essays in this book are too short to really delve as deeply as I would've liked.
stefanieh's review
5.0
When a poet turns to writing nature essays, you know you are in for a treat. Deming's essays are lyrical, slow, thoughtful, like a good poem. She writes about art and nature, spirit and nature, and stories. So much about the stories we create. Our current story is one in which we have written ourselves as outside of nature; one in which the natural world is meant to be dominated and used; one in which we like the idea of wilderness--it's pretty!--but we don't much like the actuality of it--it's scary! Demming's essays are about finding a new language to tell new stories in which we discover the sacredness of nature, replenish our spirits, and discover that we have never been, and will never be, outside of nature. These are beautiful essays full of deep wisdom.
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