Amy Leach
Autor(a) de Things That Are
Obras por Amy Leach
Associated Works
Granta 150: There Must Be Ways to Organise the World With Language (2020) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1975
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- University of Iowa
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Whiting Writers' Award (2010)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Science (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 165
- Popularidade
- #128,476
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
For instance, in “Goats and Bygone Goats,” she posits what a world of sound we’d experience if sound waves did not decay but persisted infinitely in their travels, delivering to our ears the sounds of worlds long past - "extinct toxodons, and prehistoric horses wearing pottery bells, and dead bats chewing crackly flies" - before launching wholly sideways down an inquiry into the nature of goats - Hungarian improved goats, Spanish mountain goats, and fainting goats, all of whom, Leach tells us, learn by chewing - "They investigate by chewing and chew more than they swallow, in contrast to sharks who investigate by swallowing and swallow more than they chew."… (mais)