Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison

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From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would really like you to consider his book, “Wilderness and Razor Wire,” is about the smell of creosote and rain on the wind, about hawkmoths dipping from the wells of cactus. Don’t consider him. Don’t be misled by the drawings of brittlebush and silverleaf oak (all done by Lamberton himself), or the well-intentioned, avuncular foreword by Richard Shelton, who taught Lamberton writing in prison workshops and at the University of Arizona. Though the nature writing here is also one of the best to come our way in a generation, this isn’t in the beginning a book about poppies and peppergrass. It is about the soul in pain. Reading it is like chatting with any individual in the street and noticing there is blood running down his side. All of which is to say that Lamberton (for the past 12 years an inmate of Tucson’s Santa Rita Prison) has written something entirely original: an edgy, ferocious, subtly complex selection of essays on the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature, whose true subject, and greatest accomplishment, is also its own narrative voice.

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