'This text is an echoing, unstoppable bell.'
In October Book of the Month Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times. Kerri ní Dochartaigh reviews.
Tamás, primarily a poet, combines radical political thought with personal musings and folk tales in this beautifully designed collection of prose essays.
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Strangers has been hotly anticipated. As the first collection of prose essays from Rebecca Tamás, this partly comes from the anticipation of witnessing a poet traverse forms, but it is more than that too
These essays open up space for that mystery, and ask us to cultivate ways of thinking that redraw our ethical, emotional, psychic boundaries. In doing so, we may find a richer way of being in the world.
Our Book of the Week is Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman, the first collection of essays by poet Rebecca Tamás. Order your signed copy here.