Hummingbirds between the pages /
Essays musing on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin to Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child's first encounter with death, examining the layers beneath life's quotidian moments, the layers beneath the surface of the expected.
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of the Ohio State University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | 21st century essays.
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Table of Contents:
- Darwin's fox
- How many words do you need to describe a woodpigeon?
- The walking Buddha beckons
- Sleepers
- How's the enemy?
- Glass
- (Un)sentimental timekeeping
- Before I knocked
- Butterfly smoke signals
- Watchwords
- Death and the maiden
- Crux
- Shells
- The archaeology of days
- Putting two and two together
- Skimming
- Hitting the right note
- Afterword: Thirty-six ways of looking at an essay.