Utter Earth

<b>Part nature</b><b> guide part self-help column and all love letter to the more-than-human world <i>Utter Earth </i>is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Amy Leach.</b> <p/> A light literary take on an animal book for grown-ups a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature a sort of hitchhiker's guide to the more-than-human world--Isaac Yuen's <i>Utter Earth</i> is a celebration through wordplay and earthplay of our planet's riotous wonders. <p/> In a time of dirges and elegies for the natural world <i>Utter Earth</i> features odes to sloths tributes to trilobites and ringing endorsements for lichen. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Amy Leach each essay of this one-of-a-kind collection combines joyous language whimsical tangents and scientific findings to remind us of and reconnect us with those to whom we are inextricably bound. Highlighting life that once was still is and all that we stand to lose this living and lively mini encyclopedia (complete with glossary) shines the spotlight on the motley fantastical and astonishing denizens with whom we share this planet.