Janée Baugher's Reviews > Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

No stories, per se, just lyric meanderings on the subject of mud and mud-related conditions. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "beauty arrests movement." Hurd reminds us that Galway Kinnell's poem, "The Bear" is an extended metaphor, an ars poetic. A surprising collection of lyric essays. If you aim to write in that particular sub-genre, this is definitely the anthology to study.