num_pages: 192
description: Things That Are takes jellyfish fainting goats and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodiesconsidering the similarity of gods to donkeys the inexorability of love and vines the relations of exploding stars to exploding sea cucumbersAmy Leach rekindles a vital communion with the wild world dormant for far too long. Things That Are is not specifically of the animal the human or the phenomenal; it is a book of wonder one the reader cannot help but leave with their perceptions both expanded and confounded in delightful ways.
language: English
title: Things That Are
publisher: Milkweed Editions