Coast range : a collection from the Pacific edge
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Berkeley : Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press, [2016].
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200 pages cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
979 N379
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979 N379
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Published
Berkeley : Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press, [2016].
Format
Book
Street Date
1611
Language
English
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"Coast: the edge of land, or conversely the edge of sea. Range: a measure between limits, or the scope or territory of a thing. Coast Range, the debut collection of essays from writer Nick Neely, meticulously and thoughtfully dwells on these intersections and much more. The book's title refers to the region in which these essays are set: the California and Oregon coastal ranges. In deeply moving prose equal parts exhilarating and pensive, each essay explores an iconic organism (a few geologic), so that,on the whole, the collection becomes a curiosity cabinet that freshly embodies this Pacific Northwest landscape. But the book also employs a playful range of forms. Just as forest gives way to bluff and ocean, here narrative journalism adjoins memoir andlyric essay. These associative, sensuous, and sometimes saturnine pieces are further entwined by the theme of "collecting" itself-beginning with a meditation on the impulse to gather beach agates, a semiprecious stone. Another essay follows the journey of salmon from their "collection" at a hatchery through a casino kitchen to a tribal coming-of-age ceremony; a third is a flitting exploration of hummingbirds"--,Provided by publisher.
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