Coiled Richard Chinn perhaps less encumbered by preconceptions

perhaps less encumbered by preconceptions

and how this can be achieved

when California was captivated by gold fever

or Staten Islands purple martins flying to and fro

and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate

Coiled Richard Chinn perhaps less encumbered by preconceptionsThis collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. The essays shift perspective to focus on subjects too often overlooked: unwritten histories of xenophobia in the American West, the rights of rivers everywhere,