{"product_id":"the-salt-of-the-universe-praise-songs-and-improvisations-hardcover","title":"The Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book of mischief and improvisation that answers fundamentalism with rage, music, and delight in this earth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book of mischief and improvisation, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e answers fundamentalism of all kinds with rage, music, and delight. It asks questions that are urgent, impossible, necessary, and irresistible: Where does freedom live? Why does it sometimes feel so good to be told what to do? What on heaven and earth is the Apicklypse? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese and other inquiries arise from Amy Leach's experience: playing fiddle and piano (and sometimes the organ); her childhood in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and its many prohibitions (coffee, dancing) and emphasis on the apocalypse. After listening to thousands of sermons from a variety of pulpits, here Leach is offering one of her own. She borrows the words of an old hymn, and says: \"This is my story, this is my song.\" Accompanied by four-year-old mystics and six-year-old geologists, bears and butterflies and willow trees, she praises not obedience but freedom, not secondhand but firsthand thoughts, not homogeneity but heterogeneity. She champions Emily Dickinson and Jesus over interfering prophets, questions over answers, the soul over the institution, Miles Davis over miles of marching. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Salt of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e argues against argument, and against restrictions of all kinds and their limiting effect on our humanity. In this whirlwind of linguistic cartwheels, philosophical shenanigans, and praise songs to the cosmos, Leach reminds us: we must run toward mischief, music, love, the wonders of nature, and the wild joys of all that we don't yet know.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThings That Are\u003c\/i\u003e. She grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other publications, including \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Leach lives in Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 7.86 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752778629408,"sku":"9780374607920","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d40e9a75696ccf65501caa98b8f4caca.webp?v=1780003708","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-salt-of-the-universe-praise-songs-and-improvisations-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}