View full size'Wild Delicate Seconds' by Charles Finn Charles Finn
Oregon State University Press,
$16.95 paperback, 112 pages
Over the past 15 years, Charles Finn has lived in many places across the rural Northwest. In that time, he's also come face to face with some of the region's iconic wildlife. "Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters" is a book of poetic micro-essays about his sightings. A black bear stops 30 feet from his cabin. A red fox shares a stream. A herd of bison plod past him and his truck, parting around him as if he were a stone in a river. "Because of the unexpectedness of these meetings," Finn writes, "they held a special quality for me. Always there was timelessness, a residue of the sacred, and a lingering feeling that I was witnessing something spectacular. And I was." Finn is the editor of High Desert Journal, a literary and visual arts magazine devoted to works about the interior West.
-- Katie Schneider
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