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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-258-7
Pages: 172
Publish Date: Dec, 2002
Genre: Nonfiction
The Frog Run
Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods
BY John Elder
The tail end of the sugaring season in New England is called the frog run, when pools of snowmelt teem with frogs and the last run of sap good for making syrup flows from the maple trees. For John Elder, a longtime resident of Vermont, a professor of English, and a man at midlife, the frog run is a metaphor of loss and resurgence.
In this book, Elder describes the rewilding of the Vermont woods, the sugarhouse he built with his sons, and his love of ecological literature and Japanese culture. Moving from the game of Go to the Psalms and Bash-o, he finds in each the value of embracing what seems lost.
