The almost atonal language typical of the time takes on a rich descriptive quality that makes this text deeply lyrical as well as historical. Dennis Clausen's Prairie Son will make you feel that way. Modest by design, like the house and life it chronicles, but constructed with great integrity and affection. Whether his subject is owls or herons, thistles or gardens, tracking or housebuilding, Daniel Minock is a writer who makes luminous connections, whose lively engagement with the natural world tells us much we can use about life-building, and whose clear, beautifully written essays teach us not only what to look for but how to see. He is still not convinced it was a good idea.
Awareness is a hard crop to harvest.
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