Invention of the Wilderness: Poems

by Bruce Bond

Book Overview

In Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm--a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for order, exploitation, expansion, or preservation. Although to talk of "inventing" the wilderness seems paradoxical, the book seeks to reclaim the etymological root of "invention" as a "venturing in." To invent a wilderness is to go inward by way of attentive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807177962
• ISBN13: 9780807177969
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"