Lori & Joe
Lori’s initial apparent lack of interiority is also belied by her feeling for the landscape. As well as being about time and memory, Lori & Jo is also a book about place, though you will find no rhapsodic swells of new nature writing here, no purple passages about the storied beauty of the Lakes. The land is seen entirely from within that consciousness, close up. This is about being a body — and a streaming consciousness — in the landscape, the untouchable nature of the mind against rocks and rain and puddles and fog. And the importance of a good pair of boots.
C. D. Rose reviews Amy Arnold‘s Lori & Joe.