A Field Guide to the Subterranean: Reclaiming the Deep Earth and our Deepest Selves - Rilegato

Hocking, Justin

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ISBN 10: 1640097015 ISBN 13: 9781640097018

Casa editrice: Counterpoint, 2025

Riassunto

A critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld heralds an radically inventive and kaleidoscopic approach to the genre of nature writing and memoir

A Field Guide to the Subterranean is about the lessons of hard-won renewal and the ad hoc spiritual rigging we sometimes have to create to overcome existential challenges, Hocking uses various modes—personal narrative, natural history, suspenseful narrative nonfiction, geology—to demonstrate the ways in which the environment, not just our polluted natural surroundings but the façade of the rugged American character, thwart authentic self-knowledge and connection to the world. In particular, Hocking reckons with toxic elements found in Gen X skateboarding, the Outward Bound type of miseducation about the environment, and the Men’s Movement from Robert Bly machismo to proto Incel/Proud Boy cultures which led him to struggle to accept his own individuality.  Living Frost’s adage that “the only way out is through,” Hocking boldly mines his self, finding footholds in natural wonder, birding, surfing, a generous partner, service, to climb back out and regain his life.

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Informazioni sull'autore

JUSTIN HOCKING is the author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir, which won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction. He served as the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) from 2006–2014 and is a recipient of the Willamette Writers Humanitarian Award for his work in writing, publishing, and literary outreach. He teaches creative writing in the MFA and BFA Programs at Portland State University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Counterpoint
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1640097015
• ISBN 13: 9781640097018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
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