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Part nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach.
A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker's guide to the more-than-human world—Isaac Yuen's Utter, Earth is a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet's riotous wonders.
In a time of dirges and elegies for the natural world, Utter, Earth features odes to sloths, tributes to trilobites, and ringing endorsements for lichen. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach, each essay of this one-of-a-kind collection combines joyous language, whimsical tangents, and scientific findings to remind us of and reconnect us with those to whom we are inextricably bound. Highlighting life that once was, still is, and all that we stand to lose, this living and lively mini encyclopedia (complete with glossary) shines the spotlight on the motley, fantastical, and astonishing denizens with whom we share this planet.
Contents
1. Din
Yes, You Can Leave the Hospital Without Naming Your Baby
Second Best Is Best 2. Spectacle
On Sights Unseen
102 Briefly Mentioned, Mostly Living Things
The Perfect Party Guest
3. Contact
A School Is a Type of Shoal
A Hearth Is a Kind of Home
4. Exchange
A Breath in Four Parts
How to Make Friends and Keep Them Lifelong
Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient
5. Duress
How to Debate as a Fish
Giving Up on Your Dreams
Going Down to Ground
6. Rebound
Creature Career Counseling
Reinvention Is a Matter of Necessity
7. Sustain
Pick-A-Mix, Build-A-Beast
So You Want to Write an Animal Essay
Brief Thoughts on Almost Every Mentioned, Mostly Living Thing (in Alphabetical Order)
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