![]() ![]() It never occurred to me to write a dystopian book about the horror and alienation these things caused. Then some hideous things called Zebra Mussels showed up in the water and somehow seemed to ruin everything. ![]() Minnesota was my happy summer home for decades. "This good book by Amelia Gorman really struck a nerve. Julie Reeser, author of Beak, Full of Tongue and Terracotta Pomegranate Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota is a thorned and exciting imagining where each specimen is handled as if by a daring and sun-smeared trickster, the delight in getting muddy and making up stories proudly prominent, and a refreshing pleasure in a collection of nature poetry.” ![]() “A thoughtful and intelligent collection of one-page poems and elegant illustrations that slowly bud from gentle cricket song into a poison-leafed and weedy future. I want to wrestle with some of these poems until they yield meaning, but they dance, just out of reach, evanescent and tantalizing." ![]() "A delicate blend of ecological awareness and mythological sensibility, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota lures the reader in with a semblance of clarity and rationality, and then tips you into a complex surreal world that resembles ours-it is ours-but is also not. ![]()
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