Lisa Couturier
Author of The Hopes of Snakes: And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
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- Couturier, Lisa
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- essayist
Environmental jourrnalist
magazine editor
teacher - Short biography
- Lisa Couturier's essays have appeared in literary anthologies, including the well-regarded American Nature Writing series and National Geographic's Heart of a Nation. She has worked as an environmental journalist and a magazine editor. She writes and teaches in the Washington, DC, area, where she lives with her family along the Potomac River. (From Bookish.com)
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- Washington, D.C., USA
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- D.C., USA
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Couturier's essays are written with such care and interest in the natural world and animals, they're a sort of calming meditation on how we might hope to interact with and learn from nature, at our best. Whether she's writing of coyotes, snakes, or birds--many of the essays, it's worth noting, are bird-focused--her precise language and rhythms make for a calm and entrancing meditation on her experiences with animals and with nature. There are some moments which I wish would have gotten more show more follow-up and not become forgotten threads, but on the whole, I very much enjoyed this little book, and I'd certainly recommend it to other animal-lovers, particularly those who live on the borders between cities and nature and/or don't get to spend as much time in nature as they might like.
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