The nature book /
Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Com...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Coffee House Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative reenvisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms and weather patterns, honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 290 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1566896630 9781566896634 |