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Hummingbirds between the pages
Title
Hummingbirds between the pages / Chris Arthur.
ISBN
9780814254844
0814254845
Publication
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xiii, 245 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary
"Essays musing on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin to Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child's first encounter with death, examining the layers beneath life's quotidian moments, the layers beneath the surface of the expected"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2018
Series
21st century essays
Contents
Darwin's fox
How many words do you need to describe a woodpigeon?
The walking Buddha beckons
Sleepers
How's the enemy?
Glass
(Un)sentimental timekeeping
Before I knocked
Butterfly smoke signals
Watchwords
Death and the maiden
Crux
Shells
The archaeology of days
Putting two and two together
Skimming
Hitting the right note
Afterword: Thirty-six ways of looking at an essay.
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