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  <title><![CDATA[Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination]]></title>
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  <default_description>In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, 9imagination, and fear.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author has the most luscious writing. It is very meditative, can be picked up at any place and read over and over again. I wish she wrote more than the occasional book or article.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoy swamps and marshes you will enjoy these essays.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an elegant collection of essays. Hurd will make you want to go out and play in the swamps, investigate the bogs, and find some way to express it as eloquently as she does. This was a book with dreamy sentences and evocative words that bear rereading and investigation. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read it in college - it's interesting if you're really into swamps.]]></body>
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