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A traveling scholar looks to wasps, jaguars, coyotes, bobcats, and owls for a sense of wild recognition, contemplating the mixed consequences of how nature observes itself.
In her first postpartum weeks, a writer sheds embarrassment while becoming acquainted with her body’s new demands, leaning into a newly discovered liberation.
An amateur botanist gets intimate with the plants of the Blue Ridge—ailanthus, stickweed, kudzu—and reconsiders Western science’s taxonomy of leafy criminals and citizens.
In conversation with Robert Frost, Gaston Bachelard, and a sound machine, a poet / essayist charts a path through her local greenbelt to map memory and impermanence.