The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment - Softcover

Rind, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 173647992X ISBN 13: 9781736479926

Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2022

Synopsis

Following natural history writings from Aristotle to Darwin, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment celebrates the combination of discovery and error passed along for nearly two thousand years. Into this mix comes the repressive influence of the Church on scientific thinking, followed by European colonial attitudes in the New World. But underlying the sense of superiority over people as disparate as Jews, the Irish, and indigenous tribes was the everlasting human yearning for wonder in the natural world with its creatures both real and imagined. Winner of the 2020 Eyelands International Book Award

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About the Author

Sherry Rind's poetry books are The Hawk in the Back Yard (Anhinga Award), A Fall Out the Door (King County Arts Award, Confluence Press), and Between States of Matter (The Poetry Box Select, 2020). Chapbooks are The Whooping Crane Dance and A Natural History of Grief. She has received grants and awards from the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions, Pacific Northwest Writers, National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. Near Seattle, she lives with Airedale terriers, chickens, cockatiels, and a corn snake. She would like to keep a goat.sherryrind.wixsite.com/writer

From the Back Cover

“Rind’s book of poetry expands our literary heritage from the dominant outlook. With precise language, stunning imagery, and a visceral voice, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment juxtaposes the beauty and secrets of the natural world with the cruelty and violence of the man-made world we know today. A beautiful work and an experience to read.” –Pen + Brush “In this collection of compelling persona poems, Sherry Rind gives voice to both the natural dignity and intelligence of animals, and to man’s hubris which has shaped our relationships with them.” –Alicia Hokanson,  author of Perishable World, Mapping the Distance, and Insistent in the Skin “Rind re-imagines the imagination in which early naturalists and explorers viewed the opening world around them. In their originality, pacing, wordplay, and marvelous erudition, these poems are not only eminently readable, but re-readable, as poetry should be.” –Alfred Alcorn is the author of fourteen novels, including Sugar Mountain “Exquisitely written...poems that anchors the world of animals to our transcendent human longing to know them, save them,... be as wildly innocent.... Rind has skillfully created...lavishly rich, gifts of delicate grace.” –Mary Lou Sanelli, author of The Immigrant’s Table, Among Friends, and Every Little Thing

Edition details

• Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173647992X
• ISBN 13: 9781736479926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124