Querencia
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628736968 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wonderful Book! It was beautifully written and evocative of the New Mexico I love.. The most fully human and romantic book you will ever read. Jeff Nicoll (jnicoll@ida.org) I knew Steve before his Odyssey to New Mexico during his student days in Boston. For a time, I boarded an eagle of his in my attic there along with a complicated girl friend (also in the attic) and frozen rats in my refrigerator. Years later, and long out of touch with Steve, I was looking for . A Customer said Poignant memoir of small-town life in rural New Mexico.. Steve Bodio's Querencia was given to me by a bookseller in Tucson, Arizona. I always admire Clark City Press offerings, and this unflinching memoir is among their best--truly a gem.If you have ever entertained thoughts of what life might be like in a rural small town, this book can deliver that
Together they made their home among the mountains of New Mexico, returning to a simple life of hunting, falconry, and becoming acquainted with the local reptiles and insects of the desert. He was accompanied by Betsy Huntington, who was twenty years his senior; the couple had been inseparable from the day they met. Born in Boston, Stephen Bodio wandered into Magdalena, New Mexico, in the 1970s while on his way to Montana and never left. He became accustomed to Magdalena through the people and wildlife, even joining in the biggest festival on the calendar: the Quemado Rodeo, better known by locals as the Street Dance and Brawl.From the Spanish term meaning the heart’s true home,” Querencia captivates and settles the heart. He found himself the center of his neighbors’ attention when they discovered his endless fascination with the local fauna, from snakes and birds to coursing dogs. A lover of nature, Bodio here explains in vivid detail his time spent in the wilderness. It is an astonishing read for those looking for an escape from the hustle of the big city, or just seeking to find solitude in the country life.. After stumbling upon a vintage home along the highway, they settled into a country life; it was the perfect way for the two of them to make their lives together in an out-of-the-way place.It’s through Bodio that Betsy’s story is painted in such memorable passages that soon capt
When he begins to pass the tests, his transformation is complete, earning him a home, a place in the heart. Throughout the early pages of his memoir, Stephen finds himself tested by the locals for his knowledge of raptor birds, of snakes, of dogs. --Greg McNamee. He never left. "Querencia"--the Zen-like Spanish term means something like the tiny pocket of one's inner life where one is truly at home--details a decade of life there. In the late 1970s, Stephen Bodio, a Boston-based writer, amateur naturalist, and falconer, happened into Magdalena, New Mexico, on the way somewhere else. With an assortment of birds, dogs, snakes, and books, he took up residence in a ramshackle two-story house along US 60 and set out to live in the way of country people. Querencia offers a fine brief on rural living, alternately reveling in country matters and acknowledging the difficulties involved in such exercises as luring cows home from the mountain wilderness into whi