{"product_id":"creaturely-and-other-essays-9781933527222","title":"Creaturely and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCreaturely\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDevin Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at St. Louis University. He was named a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eSources\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Turtle Point Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933527222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Devin Johnston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670933467292,"sku":"9781933527222","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_53d00cc4-2e74-423b-b306-be43a88f60a7.jpg?v=1603924004","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/creaturely-and-other-essays-9781933527222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}