Letters to Boulders

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The scientist is the close cousin of the poet and Karen Donovan is both. In her witty and engaging </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Letters to Boulders</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> 45 stunning photographs of stones are paired with prose pieces inspired by their appearance or origins. Geographic forces-erratics tarns glaciers and xenoliths-mirror social forces as the author ponders how we are constructed what adheres moves around holds up or crumbles. The collection concludes with a field guide to the stones-a brilliant new take on the glossary in which definition itself becomes a kind of poem. Occupying a new niche in nature writing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Letters to Boulders</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is both a poetic meditation on the mutable qualities of the earth we tread upon and a visual study of their beauty. </span></p><p></p>