BECOMING ANIMAL: An Earthly Cosmology

David AbramÆs first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, hailed as ôrevolutionaryö by the Los Angeles Times, as ôdaringö and ôtruly originalö by Science, has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. áAs the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long weÆve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. AbramÆs writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth.