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OverviewNature isn't only in a park or wilderness. It’s right outside our door Sometimes it’s on the door or comes inside to find us. Nature is the jumping spider on the screen, the assassin bug in the shower, and the cluster of ladybugs at the lamp. It is the moss on brick where gutters spill, a sycamore sprout in the storm drain, and the trash can lid turned into a bird bath. Joanna Brichetto is a neurodiverse, late-blooming naturalist with a sharp eye. Despite having chronic illnesses, she spends much of her time exploring nature and has an infectious, almost zealous love for the flora and fauna near and in her Nashville home. In This Is How a Robin Drinks, Brichetto weaves observation, reflection, and commentary with unsentimental wit and an earthy humor into an urban almanac of fifty-two short lyrical essays. Each piece offers a sketch of everyday wonders in everyday habitat loss. Nature is the dead sparrow in the pickup line at the elementary school, a full moon over the electric substation, and the cicada chorus that doesn’t make a days-long migraine any better (but doesn’t make it any worse either). Nature is under our feet, over our heads, and beside us—the very places we need to know first. Arranged by season, the pieces in this collection celebrate nature—just as it is—on the sidewalk and in the backyard, the park, and the parking lot. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanna BrichettoPublisher: Trinity University Press,U.S. Imprint: Trinity University Press,U.S. ISBN: 9781595342997ISBN 10: 1595342990 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 07 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsTOC Preface Summer Vocation Dragonfly, Secondhand Naked Ladies and Cicadas Walking Onions Paradise in a Parking Lot Can’t Eat Just One Devil’s Advocate At a Red Light on Music Row A Dandelion Is to Blow It Was a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo What a Butterfly Means Fameflower Why It Is Good to Go Outside Even If You Feel Like Hell Ticked Off Ghost Rain Fall Soccer Ecotone Cotton Candy Is a Constant Leaf Prints Field Trip Leavings Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Stinko Ginkgo “Little Things That Run the World” in Late October Nature’s Motel Evidence White Pine Smells Mighty Fine Free, Sustainable, and Thematic Compression Eponymous This Is How a Robin Drinks Winter Frostflowers Liriodendron tulipifera Hummingbird Winter Because of the Dashboard Winter Solstice Raptor-Ready Accidental Glade Discontinued Opportunity Sidewalk Fig Oh, Tannen-burn Spring Quiet Point What White Tree Is Blooming Now Bring Back the Bones What a Robin Sees Same Bat-Time Pop Quiz, Late April Sycamore Currency True Nature Samara Catalpa Tree Verbs Grandiflora Gesture House Wren Guided Coda: Nature Lessons: How We Can Save the World AcknowledgmentsReviews"""Smart, funny, and shot through with aching love, This Is How A Robin Drinks is both a call to action and a balm for the solastalgic heart. This profoundly beautiful, desperately necessary book will change the way you see the world and every living thing within it, including yourself."" — Margaret Renkl, author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" Author InformationJoanna Brichetto is a certified Tennessee naturalist and writes the urban nature blog Sidewalk Nature: Everyday Wonders in Everyday Habitat Loss. Her essays have appeared in Brevity, Short Reads, Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Hippocampus, the Hopper, Flyway, the Fourth River, and elsewhere. She lives in Nashville. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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