Holdfast : At Home in the Natural World

by Kathleen Dean Moore

• ISBN13: 9781558217805
• ISBN10: 1558217800
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Elegant yet playful essays on connection, memory, family, & place by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award-winner.

Author Biography

KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, and the founding director of OSU's Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. She is the author of Riverwalking, which won the 1996 Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Moore lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Prologue	13	(2)
Acknowledgments	15	(4)
CONNECTION
The Testimony of the Marsh	19	(6)
Holdfast	25	(8)
Howling with Strangers	33	(6)
A Field Guide to Western Birds	39	(10)
The Thing About Dogs	49	(4)
Field Notes for an Aesthetic of Storms	53	(12)
The Western Singing Fish	65	(10)
SEPARATION
The Song of the Canyon Wren	75	(6)
The Prometheus Moth	81	(8)
Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range	89	(8)
Cast Your Frog on the Water	97	(6)
Memory (The Boathouse)	103	(10)
Baking Bread with My Daughter	113	(4)
Pale Morning Dun (Ephemerella infrequens)	117	(8)
CONNECTION
On Being Afraid of Bears	125	(10)
Notes from the Pig-Barn Path	135	(8)
The Man with a Stump Where His Head Should Be	143	(6)
The Only Place Like This	149	(8)
Canoeing on the Line of a Song	157	(4)
Incoming Tide	161	(6)
Dead Reckoning	167