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Barbara Hurd's
Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.
About the author
Barbara Hurd is the author of
Stirring the Mud, Entering theStone, Walking the Wrack Line, and a collection of poetry,
The Singer's Temple. Her work has appeared in
Best American Essays, the
Yale Review, the
Georgia Review, Orion, and
Audubon. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, five PushcartPrizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Summary
Barbara Hurd weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.
