Charles Hood on Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds

Thursday, July 3 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is poet, prose writer, nature writer and photographer Charles Hood. In his newest book he has written a nature guide, travel adventure and, most movingly, a memoir in scenes of confession and revelation, self-discovery and joy. Out now from Heyday, it’s a collection of 18 essays gathered, with photographs, as Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything In It. Recently retired from teaching, his previous books include Nocturnalia, A Consideration of Nature at Night, and A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. In addition to traveling the world to study nature, he is also the author of the poetry collections South x South and Partially Excited States. Praise for Hood arrives from no less than Jonathan Franzen, who writes: “Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my favorite.”

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