Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw: A Wonder Almanac

On foot and in a leaky canoe, award-winning poet and naturalist Thorpe Moeckel meanders for a year through the fragmented forests of the Eno and Haw watersheds. He seeks the alive interiors of a world covered over in asphalt, seeks to shed its hard exterior and wonder the woods. In doing so he makes a record both physical and numinous. His writing invites readers to journey with him around every surprising bend and twisting turn of phrase. Reading this book is like trying to grasp a live fish or to study the seeds of a jewelweed pod the moment they unfurl: joyful, exhilarating, wakeful, wise, and riddled with each moment's loss. It orients by disorienting, because how else, Moeckel asks, can being in such an altered, changing, resilient place feel. Here is an eco-psychological lingua terra and an Anthropocene pilgrimage. Here, most of all, is an experience in attention to place, the events of the seasonal, day-to-day flora and fauna of the Carolina Piedmont.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 10/01/2019
ISBN: 9780881467215
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d