Jim's bookstore in Warner (my 'downtown office') and his open, always perceptive conversation and easy, abundant humor provided a venue for me that I will not find elsewhere. Jim Mitchell, Herr Buchhändler, as I called him, was a valued friend and constant personal connection, the source of a remarkable sharing of so many aspects of my work and life-my 'book wars' in particular-for a decade, until his untimely death at age fifty-eight, as I was completing this book. His untimely death at age sixty-two was a deep loss not only for me but for many writers, and for the literature of natural history itself. Beyond that he was a great personal friend and a champion of my writing. I benefited greatly from the dynamic he brought to that unique, complex, and I believe necessary author-editor relationship. Only two books, but they spanned a decade and entailed many drafts, so many pages and, it seemed (to him, I am sure), countless words. Harry Foster was my editor for Swampwalker's Journal and Self-Portrait with Turtles and the driving force behind my writing the latter. Between that volume and this one, she has been a steadfast supporter of my writing and art, an unflagging appreciator and believer, and an invaluable ally in getting my books into print. Meredith Bernstein, my literary agent, has been there since the beginning-since before the beginning, in fact, as she was bringing my work to the attention of publishers over the course of eight years before I received my first contract. I HAVE DEDICATED this book to three people who have played vital roles in the books I have developed over the past twenty-one years. Linesįrom 'Escondido en los muros' by Luis Cernuda, from The Poetry of LuisĬernuda: Order in a World of Chaos, by Neil Charles McKinlay (London: Tamesis,ġ999). Lines from 'Villa at the Foot of Mount Chungnan' by Wang Wei, fromĪnthology of Chinese Poetry, edited by Wai-Lim Yip.

Magazine (Winter 2007) under the title 'Scenes from the End of a Season.' Several chapters of this book appeared, in somewhat different form, in Tufts

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