{"product_id":"wildness-unafraid","title":"Wildness Unafraid","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eComprised of lyrical, compelling poems, \u003cstrong\u003eTim Murphy\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cem\u003eWildness Unafraid \u003c\/em\u003ehonors and explores the beauty of nature, while investigating our complex, tenuous relationship to the more-than-human world. In doing so, Tim Murphy imagines if we not only viewed plants and animals as worthy of our admiration, but worthy of protection from the parts of ourselves that endanger them. This is a timely, needed book in the age of climate crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWildness Unafraid, \u003c\/em\u003eTim Murphy sows seeds that will grow in those souls who listen ... and in the winds beyond reach of human ways. Murphy offers lessons on being wholly present and connected to the edge of the water, the hunt of the heron, the critique of crows, the anxiety of squirrels, and the relationship geese maintain with the sky. He doesn’t write about nature, he writes for nature, and that is the difference that makes his work worth reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e—Maragaret Noodin, Professor of English and American Indian studies, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and Author, \u003cem\u003eWhat the Chickadee Knows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTim Murphy’s poems are thoughtful meditations on the wisdoms and beauties of the natural world, “of the many lives beyond our own \/ always unfolding, always near.” Probing at any false ideals of colonial human superiority, of the ableism many humans cling to, and expanding on the complexities of the non-human with a quiet, measured touch — as the reader spends slow time with Murphy’s verse, “a knowing grows.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e—Khairani Barokka, Author, \u003cem\u003eUltimatum Orangutan\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Indigenous Species\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTim Murphy’s poems occupy the quiet places within our lives — the crows that “nose through our trash,” the crickets’ call that “reminds us we’re not alone.” In this collection, Murphy pursues the multitude of connection points between the more-than-human world and our twenty-first century artifices. “I think of the many \/ cages we forge \/ from beauty \/ that ensnare \/ more than just us.” These poems show the author’s deep appreciation for our humanity, even in an era of environmental crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e—Aaron Lelito, Editor in Chief, \u003cem\u003eWild Roof Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 64 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (March 24, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53223942947000,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/tmurphy_front.jpg?v=1775158506","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/wildness-unafraid","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}