"I was always going to write essays, tracing the sentences on the page like bird tracks or flight paths or the first chanterelles emerging after late …

"The table is set; time to come up from the lake." An excerpt from The Summer Book. 

Word travels by mouth, by the passing of these volumes from one hand to another. These books are worth the search.

"In an unstable world, we want to know what we’re getting, and with an essay, we can never be sure."