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The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor and fecundity of summer, and the bittersweet memories evoked by fall.
It is full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the valley — ruggedness, improvisation and, of course, duct tape. The Wild Marsh is also tremendously poignant, especially when Bass reflects on what it means for his young daughters to grow up surrounded by the strangeness and wonder of nature. He shares with them the Yaak’s little secrets — where the huckleberries are best in a dry year, where to find a grizzly’s claw marks in an old cedar — and discovers that passing on this intimate local knowledge, the knowledge of home, is a kind of rare and valuable love.
Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, and a gifted observer, uniquely able to bring us close to the drama and sanctity of small things, ensuring that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.
- Sales Rank: #724556 in Books
- Published on: 2009-07-01
- Released on: 2009-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 6.20" w x 9.00" l, 1.30 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Novelist and naturalist Bass (The Lives of Rocks) gets up close and personal with local fauna, flora and folks in this account of the passing seasons in northwestern Montana's Yaak Valley wilderness range, where he and his family—four of the estimated 150 inhabitants of the half-a-million-acre region—have dwelled for 13 years. January is the dark month; March heralds the mud season; May brings hard rains and the first aspen buds. July and August are when fire, œa forest's breath, both renews the landscape and threatens homes. Come October, œa heroic fatigue sets in after spring's heady growth and summer's steady pace, and spirits surge on a brittle, sunny day in December. Bass complements naturalistic observations with anecdotes about his neighbors, like the accommodating old-timers who winch his truck out of a ravine. Throughout, the author anchors his celebration of nature's elegant order with his rhapsodic relationship to the wild marsh outside his writing cabin, and the uncompromising wilderness it represents. Bass has mined his valley for several other books, but there is no shortage of nature's grace for him to exalt. (July)
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Critically acclaimed writer Bass (The Book of Yaak) writes again about his beloved Yaak Valley, only this time with a sense of celebration as he ushers in the new millennium with a month-by-month record of observations, events, and thoughts from this remote, wild section of northwest Montana. He writes of each month's distinctive character—silent January, lusty May, and April, as we northern readers can attest to, the month of dashed hopes when sudden snowstorms hold spring at bay. Bass, whose life seems shaped by the Wendell Berry poem "The Peace of Wild Things," presents a work of wonder, praise, and thanksgiving for all the marvels of nature, where every aspect is connected and every process has its place. Bass, grounding his book in science well, takes the facts and transforms them, as a musician transforms musical notes, into a work of great beauty. This walk through a year is a walk through the author's soul, filled with passions, dreams, fears, and the exuberance of Walt Whitman. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/09.]—Maureen J. Delaney-Lehman, Lake Superior State Univ. Lib., Sault Ste. Marie, MI
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“Classic in form, the journal of a year in an old loved place, The Wild Marsh is a lovingly-wrought chronicle from a writerly soul that has found its spot in the world: the one-of-a-kind Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana. Sure-footed in his approach whether topic is a forest fire in his font yard or the excitement of the first tiny cheerful glacier lilies in spring, Rick Bass is a stirring companion on the trail that leads west from the Walden Pond of Henry David Thoreau and the Sand County of Aldo Leopold.” —Ivan Doig, author of The Whistling Season
"[T]he author anchors his celebration of nature’s elegant order with his rhapsodic relationship to the wild marsh outside his writing cabin, and the uncompromising wilderness it represents." —STARRED, Publishers Weekly
"Bass, grounding his book in science well, takes the facts and transforms them, as a musician transforms musical notes, into a work of great beauty. This walk through a year is a walk through the author’s soul, filled with passions, dreams, fears, and the exuberance of Walt Whitman." —Library Journal
"A welcome installment in Bass’s ongoing place-centered autobiography." —Kirkus
"A wonderfully poetic, evocative homage to a wilderness most of us will never see." —STARRED, Booklist
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Year of Nature Essays
By KC
With Thoreau as his inspiration, Rick Bass tackles "Walden West" with this loving tribute to his home in the Yaak Valley, THE WILD MARSH. He writes from a cabin perched on the marsh and uses the calendar as a means of structuring the book, starting with January. Here we get detailed accounts of nature's every breath -- flora, fauna, and the fodder for thought that they cause.
Fans of Rick Bass and readers who enjoy nature essays will take to this book straight off. Other readers might enjoy it more as a "dip in" book rather than a "read cover to cover" book. That is, with his descriptions and ruminations so rich, readers could equally enjoy the book by, say, reading the month they are in or headed toward, then moving on to other books, then returning to this the next month. Here's a sample of Bass's style from the chapter "March":
"It's a joy to be out walking in the woods, traversing bare ground. I love winter, and snow, but cannot help but think of the bare earth as the "real" world. Some folks go out in early spring, hunting the winter-shed antlers of the deer to sell to curio shops and so forth, but I go simply out of pleasure, and perhaps worship: to see, and touch, the echo of the secret deer that have been passing through our forest. It's hard to describe, and harder to explain, the feeling of richness one gets, spying an antler just emerged from the snow: treasure, discovered."
You hear echoes of Thoreau when you see the word "worship" and the words "the echo of the secret deer." Nice stuff. Contemplative. This is not fast food. Like a walk in the woods, you need to be in the right mood to enjoy what it has to offer. You need to be inspired by a whole page dedicated to a deer's antler (or a painted turtle's carapace, or an aspen's bud). If this sounds like you, then I highly recommend the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Very Heartfelt Words Pouring Out Straight From His Heart
By Bookreporter
Rick Bass is a writer who understands the English language in all its complexity. Like his compadre-in-spirit, Annie Dillard, his focus on the natural world allows him to use it in exciting and very poetic ways to describe the most miniscule events, as if they are completely altering the world as we know it. And sometimes they are. In his new memoir, THE WILD MARSH, Bass discusses his life in Montana. A home on the range has never seemed more contemplative, inviting or debilitating, in equal measure.
Like an adventure story, THE WILD MARSH begins in one place and ends up in a very different place, although the actual location of the story doesn't change at all. What do I mean by that? Simply put, the natural year's journey that Bass and his family make from January through December over the course of one year --- a family consisting of two young daughters, a devoted wife and mother, and Bass --- becomes as enthralling and fascinating as any Robert Louis Stevenson tome you've ever put your hands on. It is not merely the way the marsh changes throughout the seasons, the amazing natural panorama, a moving science museum diorama of exciting creatures and everchanging flora passing by his writing cabin's window that make this story so compelling. Instead, it is simply the idea of survival in such a climate and place that grabs the readers, taking them by the jugular and pulling them through the year, always asking, "How did you survive that one?"
The severe cold, the treacherous trails that have to be braved on a daily basis to take the children to their one-room schoolhouse, the scary wild animals (black bear, anybody?) that inhabit this beautiful place give us glimpses into what it really means, in this technologically-savvy world in which we live, to "go back to the land." Although Bass and his family do not live primarily off the land, it is this land that sustains them in both spiritual and intellectual ways, giving Bass a platform for his most persuasive and pervasively poetic meanderings. Without the marsh and its constant challenges, one senses that Bass would be half the man he purports to be --- it is the lifeline he has fit so intently into his jugular that the very rhythms of its pumping keep him connected to the Earth in a way that is daily bread for him and his writing.
THE WILD MARSH wears in some places, the way that someone's YouTube video of their vacation can. Yes, it was great for you but it's not right for me. Still, with his very heartfelt words pouring out straight from his heart, Bass's book cannot fail to make you, if only for a moment, envy his contemplative and very athletic life.
--- Reviewed by Jana Siciliano
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Sometimes an author must know what to cut
By Arthur Digbee
In this book, Rick Bass chronicles the seasons in his beloved Yaak valley. He's partly motivated by a fear that the nature in which he loves will be destroyed all too soon, so that someone with an observant eye should write it all down for future generations.
While Bass observes nature in the Yaak as the year progresses, this isn't a Montanan version of the Sand County Almanac. He spends much more time on human interactions with the natural world. Some of this, he admits, is navel-gazing; but much of it just tells the story of a human community that lives close to nature - - gathering berries, chopping wood for fuel, relying on autumn hunts for meat. The bulk of the book lies in its longest chapters, which reflect very human concerns: April (rebirth), July and August (wildfires), and November (hunting season).
Bass also muses on many purely human issues that follow the rhythm of the seasons. He is middle-aged and aware of aging and his own eventual death. He has buried his mother, and some friends. He has two daughters representing the next generation. Like many parents, he worries about the world in which his daughters will live.
If you've already read some of Bass's books, much will be familiar. In this book, however, I wish he had edited himself more forcefully. The book seems much too close to its origins as journal, just reporting the thoughts of the day. It doesn't tighten up those thoughts, revisit them - - or, most importantly, decide which thoughts need to be deleted as not fitting the themes he wishes to emphasize.
This could have been an interesting answer to Sand County Almanac, emphasizing the human role in nature, and the way that a human community lives and loves in a wild place. But it sprawls too much in its present form, and has too much navel-gazing. It would have benefitted from some sharp editorial scissors to release the great book that wants to be born here.
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