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Adam R. Burnett
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Apr 30, 2021

A managed retreat: New Orleans

I came to know my brother for the first time as an adult on a drunken weekend in New Orleans. I returned three winters later in the fall, living in St. …

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Mar 15, 2021

Book Responses (June 2020 - December 2022)

DECEMBER 2022 BOOKS

Book Review

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Book Review (June 2020-February 2021)
Book Review (June 2020-February 2021)
Book Review

80 min read


Oct 26, 2019

Living Things: Gila Wilderness & Bear

Returning from the Gila wilderness, over 100 miles of winding roads through aspen and ponderosa pine; in the valley, massive cottonwood trees drink along the banks of the shallow clear-running Gila River. …

Environment

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Living Things: Gila Wilderness & Bear
Living Things: Gila Wilderness & Bear
Environment

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Oct 19, 2019

Living Things: Mushroom & Dragonfly

The sky and the grass were rushing with waves, as was the lake, waves upon waves in the waves, the sky and the grass, my hands, all waves. I waved my hand to wave the waves, waved away they waved. Upon the wavy grass I waved, intermittently running down to…

Science

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Living Things: Mushroom & Dragonfly
Living Things: Mushroom & Dragonfly
Science

5 min read


Oct 12, 2019

Living Things: Spider

At a family reunion last year, eating meat sandwiches on a molding picnic table, a massive black fluorescent flying beetle lands on my shoulder. It’s a shock. I jolt, perhaps release a yip. I am at a table of elders, great aunts and uncles, all of whom overreact in choral…

Spiders

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Living Things: Spider
Living Things: Spider
Spiders

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Oct 5, 2019

Living Things: Heron

The mystery and awe of the heron, a bird who can remain so still and move so slowly as to disappear. The heron is a magician, once there and once gone in the cattails. My eyes always attune to their shape, the long neck that stretches in curiosity, and the…

Animals

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BLiving Things 1: Heron
BLiving Things 1: Heron
Animals

7 min read


Oct 19, 2016

On Sight, In Detroit

Over the past decade I have made it a point to travel, live and write about those spaces we forget in our definition of America. From my second home in Albuquerque, where indigenous culture and history are a daily reflection, to New Orleans, living in a bus for weeks in…

Detroit

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On Sight, In Detroit
On Sight, In Detroit
Detroit

5 min read

Adam R. Burnett

Adam R. Burnett

Adam R. Burnett writes. More at adamrburnett.com

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