"The author puts forward a bracing theory of partial
empathy....Johnston's searching book of thought-probes goes a long
way toward allowing the reader the grounding that would allow him
to make empathic contacts with the animals over which he
ponders....Each time another animal becomes extinct a special and
irretrievable way of looking at the world is gone....Perhaps the
more people that read this book, the more this absence would be
poignantly felt."--"The Brooklyn Rail"
""Creaturely," like its subjects, eludes definition. It's a book
of exquisite essays--or are they prose poems--that tessellate into
something larger: a meditation, perhaps, or a vision. Johnston's
subject is at once the absolute otherness of the creatures with
whom we share the world's everyday spaces--dogs, owls, mice,
squirrels, crows--and the worth of our attempts to get to know
them. Modest, calm, and beautiful, this is an exceptional
book."--Robert Macfarlane
Devin Johnston teaches at St. Louis University. He was named a
finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for
"Sources," published by Turtle Point Press.
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