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This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Petersonâ¿s slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Introspection, wish, dream, and memory mark this tale, which is set in a location resembling twenty-first-century Californiaâ¿with vistas and orchards threatened by drought and fires. This is also a place of enchantment, a fairy-tale landscape where humans and animals live as equals. As the girl and the donkey grow up, they respond to the difficulties of contemporary civilization, asking a question that meets our existential moment: What do you do with the story you didnâ¿t wish for? A narratorâ¿s voice combines candor with distance, attempting to find a path through our familiar strife, toward a future that feels all but impossible, and into what remains of beauty and pleasure. Life in a Field tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of âthe cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.â?
The death of a mother alters forever a family's story of itself. Indeed, it taxes the ability of a family to tell that story at all. In this book, the title poem attempts three explanations of the departure of a life from the earth - a physical account, a psychological account, and a spiritual account.
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