With a sense of amazement for the creatures around us, Aimee makes an ardent and artistic case for a compassionate ethics grounded in a deeper understanding-and love-of nature.
Aimee’s responses further showcase her writing capacity and craft, and prove that being both pointedly political and inspiringly whimsical opens space to appreciate the full complexity of human experiences. In the close quarters of a Google doc, Aimee and I discussed the challenges and imperatives that drove the scope and complexity of World of Wonders.
World of Wonders is a stunning union of biography, poetry, philosophy, and science it is imbued with a love for her readers and for the natural world, and with a hope that people of color will feel more seen in nature writing. As she shares below, “It’s at once a thrilling and exhausting freedom to have that space in an essay to think through a concern.”Īnd Aimee makes compelling use of this new space and structure. Nezhukumatathil’s lyrical narrative strategies, as well as a deeply empathetic and complex grounding in personal experience, make World of Wonders unlike other books on nature and our fragile ecology. A recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship with six published collections of poetry, Nezhukumatathil is no stranger to navigating (and succeeding in) this area of the writing world.īut World of Wonders is a translation of the ingredients that have fueled Aimee’s success in poetry, placing them into a new medium. She has an established, arguably prolific, career as a poet. It may seem like a dramatic departure for Aimee Nezhukumatathil to move into nonfiction with her new book, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.
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