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"Everyone is familiar with the old saying, 'If these walls could talk.' It's just an adage, of course. But play along for a moment. What if these walls could talk? What if that massive old oak needed to express some of what it has seen being the oldest living thing for miles? What if our watches could speak? Would they speak of all the reasons, important and inane, that they've checked the time? In Leff's brilliant new book, these things-and more-do speak, and Leff's recording of these subtle murmurings, is captivating, recognizable, and extraordinarily poignant. This is among the most original and compelling works I've ever read. In fact, I'm pretty sure my lamp just uttered, in its light voice, David's new book is marvelous! And I couldn't agree more.
-John Stanizzi, author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts
About the author
David K. Leff is an essayist, Pushcart Prize nominated poet and former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He is the author of six nonfiction books, three volumes of poetry and a novel in verse. His 2004 book, The Last Undiscovered Place, was a Connecticut book award finalist. His 2016 book Canoeing Maine's Legendary Allagash: Thoreau, Romance and Survival of the Wild won a silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards for memoir and a silver medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for regional nonfiction. In 2016-2017 the National Park Service appointed him poet-in-residence for the New England National Scenic Trail (NET). David is the town meeting moderator and town historian in his hometown of Canton, Connecticut where he also has served 26 years as a volunteer firefighter and in other civic activities. His journals, correspondence, and other papers are archived at the University of Massachusetts Libraries in Amherst. For more go to www.davidkleff.com
