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Tallmadge, John

 
9780820326900: The Cincinnati Arch: Learning From Nature In The City
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0820326909 ISBN 13 : 9780820326900
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2004

Synopsis

What wilderness lover, asks John Tallmadge, "would ever dream of settling deep in the Rust Belt astride polluted rivers?" The Cincinnati Arch holds the provocative answer to Tallmadge's question, which was prompted by his unplanned relocation from rural Minnesota to urban Ohio. Tallmadge tells of dismaying early encounters with the city's seeming barenness, his growing awareness of its vitality and abundance, and finally his new vision of all nature, from the vacant lots of his neighborhood to our great New England forests and Western deserts. New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the "buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing life forms" around him. More deeply, Tallmadge began to learn from, and not just about, the city. Nature's persistence—within him and wherever he looked—wore away at old notions of wilderness that made no allowances for human culture. The "arch" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape Tallmadge comes to love; as an archetypal building form; and, in its parabolic shape, as a metaphor for life's journey. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, this is a hopeful guide to finding nature and balance in unlikely places.

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À propos de l'auteur

JOHN TALLMADGE is Core Professor of Literature and Environmental Studies at the Graduate College of Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of Meeting the Tree of Life, and his work has appeared in such publications as Audubon and Orion.

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Éditeur
University of Georgia Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820326909
ISBN 13 
9780820326900
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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