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The River You Touch
Making a Life on Moving Water
Taschenbuch von Chris Dombrowski
Sprache: Englisch

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"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."When Chris Dombrowski burst onto the literary scene with Body of Water, the book was acclaimed as "a classic" (Jim Harrison) and its author compared with John McPhee. Dombrowski begins the highly anticipated The River You Touch with a question as timely as it is profound: "What does a meaningful, mindful, sustainable inhabitance on this small planet look like in the Anthropocene?"He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of Montana. Transplants from the post-industrial Midwest, he and his partner, Mary, assemble a life based precariously on her income as a schoolteacher, his as a poet and fly-fishing guide. Before long, their first child arrives, followed soon after by two more, all "free beings in whom flourishes an essential kind of knowing [...], whose capacity for wonder may be the beacon by which we see ourselves through this dark epoch." And around the young family circles a community of friends-river-rafting guides and conservationists, climbers and wildlife biologists-who seek to cultivate a way of living in place that moves beyond the mythologized West of appropriation and extraction. Moving seamlessly from the quotidian-diapers, the mortgage, a threadbare bank account-to the metaphysical-time, memory, how to live a life of integrity-Dombrowski illuminates the experience of fatherhood with intimacy and grace. Spending time in wild places with their children, he learns that their youthful sense of wonder at the beauty and connectivity of the more-than-human world is not naivete to be shed, but rather wisdom most of us lose along the way-wisdom that is essential for the possibility of transformation.
"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."When Chris Dombrowski burst onto the literary scene with Body of Water, the book was acclaimed as "a classic" (Jim Harrison) and its author compared with John McPhee. Dombrowski begins the highly anticipated The River You Touch with a question as timely as it is profound: "What does a meaningful, mindful, sustainable inhabitance on this small planet look like in the Anthropocene?"He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of Montana. Transplants from the post-industrial Midwest, he and his partner, Mary, assemble a life based precariously on her income as a schoolteacher, his as a poet and fly-fishing guide. Before long, their first child arrives, followed soon after by two more, all "free beings in whom flourishes an essential kind of knowing [...], whose capacity for wonder may be the beacon by which we see ourselves through this dark epoch." And around the young family circles a community of friends-river-rafting guides and conservationists, climbers and wildlife biologists-who seek to cultivate a way of living in place that moves beyond the mythologized West of appropriation and extraction. Moving seamlessly from the quotidian-diapers, the mortgage, a threadbare bank account-to the metaphysical-time, memory, how to live a life of integrity-Dombrowski illuminates the experience of fatherhood with intimacy and grace. Spending time in wild places with their children, he learns that their youthful sense of wonder at the beauty and connectivity of the more-than-human world is not naivete to be shed, but rather wisdom most of us lose along the way-wisdom that is essential for the possibility of transformation.
Über den Autor

Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ∙ 1

I. YOUNG MOUNTAINS

Headwaters ∙ 11

Thunderbird Motel ∙ 18

Dostoyevsky’s Koan ∙ 28

Visitors ∙ 45

Seeds ∙ 61

Emissaries ∙ 73

Begin, O Small Boy, To Be Born ∙ 83

Windfall ∙ 92

Neighbors ∙ 109

First Fall ∙ 122

The River of Real Time ∙ 135

II. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS

Bed Rest ∙ 145

The Creaturehood ∙ 156

Road to the Buffalo ∙ 171

Heathen ∙ 183

Black River, Bright Stars ∙

194 Nine Months, Three Years Later ∙ 203

Three ∙ 215

III. THE NATURE OF WONDER

High Water Rising ∙ 229

The Deadstream ∙ 241

Old Mission ∙ 256

Good Harbor ∙ 265

Parr Marks ∙ 273

Great-Grandmother ∙ 294

Home Psalm ∙ 299

A Thimbleful ∙ 306

Notes ∙ 315

Acknowledgments ∙ 319

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781639550852
ISBN-10: 1639550852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dombrowski, Chris
Hersteller: Milkweed Editions
Maße: 139 x 215 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Dombrowski
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,428 kg
Artikel-ID: 126360156
Über den Autor

Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ∙ 1

I. YOUNG MOUNTAINS

Headwaters ∙ 11

Thunderbird Motel ∙ 18

Dostoyevsky’s Koan ∙ 28

Visitors ∙ 45

Seeds ∙ 61

Emissaries ∙ 73

Begin, O Small Boy, To Be Born ∙ 83

Windfall ∙ 92

Neighbors ∙ 109

First Fall ∙ 122

The River of Real Time ∙ 135

II. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS

Bed Rest ∙ 145

The Creaturehood ∙ 156

Road to the Buffalo ∙ 171

Heathen ∙ 183

Black River, Bright Stars ∙

194 Nine Months, Three Years Later ∙ 203

Three ∙ 215

III. THE NATURE OF WONDER

High Water Rising ∙ 229

The Deadstream ∙ 241

Old Mission ∙ 256

Good Harbor ∙ 265

Parr Marks ∙ 273

Great-Grandmother ∙ 294

Home Psalm ∙ 299

A Thimbleful ∙ 306

Notes ∙ 315

Acknowledgments ∙ 319

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781639550852
ISBN-10: 1639550852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dombrowski, Chris
Hersteller: Milkweed Editions
Maße: 139 x 215 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Dombrowski
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,428 kg
Artikel-ID: 126360156
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