num_pages: 217
description: Bill Holm's commentary from the book's back cover:The essay is an old and noble form but we've almost lost it in the welter of op-ed rants and whining recitation of childhood wrongs. But Emilio DeGrazia restores the honor and pleasure of the genre. His essays do what Montaigne asked: Explore the way a mind works and what's in it. And DeGrazia does it with literate wit. A person who thinks -- and who has read books -- lives in these essays. Why not think and let the mind play when a rattlesnake sheds its skin a few feet from your chair?
language: English
title: Burying the Tree
publisher: Plain View Press