{"product_id":"9781933527222","title":"Creaturely and Other Essays","description":"Author: Devin Johnston\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781933527222\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Dec 2009\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925045035166,"sku":"ING-9781933527222","price":20.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781933527222.jpg?v=1782958162","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781933527222","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}