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Contains nine essays which explores the allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Detailing the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men, this work establishes a separate ground for thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing.

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Hurd is a consummate naturalist, writing with the grace and precision of a Peter Matthiessen or an Annie Dillard. - Los Angeles Times ""Delving into these wetlands, [Hurd] finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness."" - New Yorker ""Hurd's poetic inquiry into the life and margins of marshy terrain takes us on a magic-filled metaphorical mystery tour of human desire."" - Utne

Stirring the Mud On Swamps Bogs and Human Imagination

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Georgia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780820331522, 978-0820331522
      ISBN10: 082033152X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contains nine essays which explores the allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Detailing the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men, this work establishes a separate ground for thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing.

      Trade Review
      Hurd is a consummate naturalist, writing with the grace and precision of a Peter Matthiessen or an Annie Dillard. - Los Angeles Times ""Delving into these wetlands, [Hurd] finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness."" - New Yorker ""Hurd's poetic inquiry into the life and margins of marshy terrain takes us on a magic-filled metaphorical mystery tour of human desire."" - Utne

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