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Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

Howard V. Hendrix

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Año de edición:
2023
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9780645849660
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Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind is a rare collection: it is both deeply thoughtful and hugely thought provoking. It is written with a masterly poetic skill: spare, exact, clever. It selects its subjects from among the most urgent problems facing our world, and it treats them with an astonishing mixture of scientific understanding, humour, compassion, and just a hint of world weariness. But this is no dry, didactic diatribe. The entire collection is infused with the poet’s love of the natural world, his fascination and frustration with our own species, and a richly humorous outlook which elevates the whole collection with a gentle optimism.

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