Amy Leach
Autore di Things That Are
Opere di Amy Leach
Opere correlate
Granta 150: There Must Be Ways to Organise the World With Language (2020) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1975
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Iowa
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Whiting Writers' Award (2010)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Science (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 169
- Popolarità
- #126,057
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Preferito da
- 1
For instance, in “Goats and Bygone Goats,” she posits what a world of sound we’d experience if sound waves did not decay but persisted infinitely in their travels, delivering to our ears the sounds of worlds long past - "extinct toxodons, and prehistoric horses wearing pottery bells, and dead bats chewing crackly flies" - before launching wholly sideways down an inquiry into the nature of goats - Hungarian improved goats, Spanish mountain goats, and fainting goats, all of whom, Leach tells us, learn by chewing - "They investigate by chewing and chew more than they swallow, in contrast to sharks who investigate by swallowing and swallow more than they chew."… (altro)