Essays

 
 

How The Pacific Makes Love To The Rockies

Drawing upon a lifelong intimacy with the rivers of the Pacific Northwest, David James Duncan improvises a cosmology that ties the universe to deep experiences of place.

 

Bird-watching as a Blood Sport

On the redemptive pain of loving the natural world

 

One’s Place Upon The Earth

On a recent river walk, rod in hand as always, I slipped across the Montana border into Idaho.

 

What Fundamentalists Need for Their Salvation

I WAS BORN A CHOSEN PERSON, THOUGH this state of affairs was not of my choosing.

 

A Mickey Mantle koan

The obstinate grip of an autographed baseball