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A Breathable Light
Rodney Torreson

$14.00 Trade Paper
ISBN: 1-930974-23-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-23-4
Publication Date: September, 2002

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At the beginning of Rodney Torreson’s fascinating second book, everything is in its place—ordinary, time-honored, known. Then, quite without warning, the familiar becomes new, alien, strangely awful or strangely dazzling. In a landscape of ditch, fence, branch, stone, and weed, it seems all living creatures are in league with the dry wind and the icebound ruts—deer, pig, horse, cow, even the innocent, suckling lamb. In subversive ways, A Breathable Light takes the human figure out of his seat in the foreground, strips him of all privileges and asks him to understand himself as nature understands him. . .