Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders (eBook, ePUB)

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments
Illustrator: Nakamura, Fumi Mini

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Bestseller

'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder' - James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song

'Unusual and captivating ... a thing of wonder, the book that most took me by surprise this year' - Jini Reddy, author of Wanderland

Aimee Nezhukumatathil has had many homes, but wherever she was - however awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape - she found guidance and perspective in nature.

The axolotl smiles, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shakes off unwanted advances; the narwhal survives its hostile environment. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship.

Warm, lyrical and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Mini Nakamura, this book ranges through joy and pain, encountering love, motherhood and heritage, racism and the destruction humans can wreak. In all those things, it shows that if you listen carefully, if you open your eyes wide, the world is full of wonders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782838913
• Artikelnr.: 60865748

Autorenporträt

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems, including, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry, the New York Times Magazine and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

Inhaltsangabe

Catalpa Tree 1 
Firefly 9 
Peacock 15 
Comb Jelly 20 
Touch-Me-Nots 25
Cactus Wren 28 
Narwhal 35 
Axolotl 43 
Dancing Frog 49 
Vampire Squid 53 
Monsoon 58 
Corpse Flower 69 
Bonnet Macaque 74 
Calendars Poetica 79 
Whale Shark 85 
Potoo 93
Cara Cara Orange 98 
Octopus 103 
Grey Cockatiel 108 
Dragon Fruit 113 
Flamingo 116
Ribbon Eel 123
Questions While Searching for Birds with My Half-White Sons, Aged Six and
Nine, National Audubon Bird Count Day, Oxford, MS 128
Superb Bird of Paradise 133 
Red-Spotted Newt 138
Southern Cassowary 145
Monarch Butterfly 151
Barreleye Fish: An Abecedarian 157 
Dandelion 169
South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher 173 
Candle Larkspur 181
Firefly (Redux) 183
Acknowledgments 189
Reader’s Guide 195
Teaching Guide 221