Dan Carpenter on Scott Russell Sanders' "Earth Works"

In "Earth Works" (Indiana University Press), the nationally honored practitioner Scott Russell Sanders has collected 30 of his first-person-singular writings in continuing pursuit of "perennial human questions" that will never have definitive answers but suffer tragically from being too seldom asked.

By turns somber and snap-out-of-it buoyant, these elegant artifacts of restless inquiry cover subjects as intimate as the author's sexual awakening and his father's alcoholism, as broad as the origins of the universe and the disarray of contemporary hyper-urban society.

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