Earth's Own Animal: Poems and Arts With an Essay On the People's Battle to Save San Bruno Mountain

Brisbane, CA: Dafvid Schooley and San Bruno Mountain Watch, 2020. Square quarto in color illus, predominanlty brown stiff paper wraps; 261 pages: illustrations (some color); 22 cm. Two smallish coffee stains to fore-edge; ekse tight clean with wee bit of edge-wear. Paperback. ISBN: 9781648716287; 1648716288

An inspired and inspiring piece of Bay Area history, lore and community environmental activism. Contents: Part I. Earth's Own Animal -- Mountain -- Weather -- Death -- Meditation -- Trickster -- Poetry's World -- Fire -- Town -- The People's Battle. Part II. The People's Battle Part III. First People of the Mountain.

"Earth's Own Animal us a serene embattled wake-up call. It offers poems and drawings good as gold from David Schooley's half-century with San Bruno Mountain, They touch emptiness and dawn, coyote and humming bird, dragonflies, sage, sunken rage, and nights by creeks with boulders for a pillow under stands of coast live oak. David, too, honors the indigenous Ohlone -- the first people of the Mountain who settled on us slopes and canyons thousands of years ago, David also tracks the wild delicate battle he waged in league with locals to protect the Mountain's 3,600 acres of buckeye, oaks, and Manzanita, its shell mounds, valleys, and ravines with their multiple microclimates sustaining rare species in the world's last piece of native Franciscan land." -- Rear cover

Part I comprises poetry; Part II, essays; part III honors indigenous peoples. All with Schooley's drawings scattered within.

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