Product Overview
Author: Phillip Sterling
Publisher: Mayapple Press
Paperback: 43
How the narrator of Amateur Husbandry manages to maintain a sense of calmness and well-being as he deals with the rather unruly and chaotic “natural” world is remarkable. Married to a yellow horse of Xantippe-like qualities, he is nonetheless the go-to guy for fatherly and sane advice, whether dealing with an unneighborly woodchuck, a pan-handling bear, or one of his many fosterlings (like the goat that wants to dress up as a U.S. President), all the while maintaining a sense of humor and empathy.
Call them what you will—microfictions, prose poems, fables, field notes—these brief observations of nature (human and animal) are those of a backyard zoologist, anthropologist, mythologist, and literary executor—all amateurishly wise, playfully insightful, and often very funny.
