Wolfish Wolf Self And The Stories We Tell About Fear Erica Berry by Erica Berry 9781250821621, 1250821622 instant download after payment.

From 17th-century Europeans referring to mysterious bodily sores as wolves, to contemporary xenophobia about wolves crossing national borders, wolves have long been made to carry our most entrenched sociopolitical, environmental, & bodily fears. Intimate & thought-provoking, Wolfish is a lyrical inquiry into the relationship between humans & wolves, anchored in the dual stories of one legendary tagged wolf, OR-7, & the author. Charting OR-7's long-distance solo journey after he leaves his pack in northeastern Oregon beside the author's own roaming trajectory away from her Oregon home, Wolfish wrestles with inherited narratives around fear, danger, & the body. 

From her grandfather's sheep farm to a wolf sanctuary on an aristocratic English estate, Erica Berry untangles binaries of predator & prey, self & other, & wild & domestic, finding new expressions for how to be a brave woman, human, & animal in our warming world. Perfect for readers of cultural criticism, environmental writing, Rebecca Solnit, H is for Hawk, or anybody trying to navigate a world that is often scary. A timely & necessary book for current & future generations"

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, etc.