Wedding the Wild Particular

ROBERT BENSON taught undergraduates for forty-five years and recently retired from the University of the South.  He divides his time between Sewanee and the Alabama Gulf Coast.

“Robert Benson’s essays, personal but tough-minded, draw the reader into  a sensibility that  feels  and understands the landscape  (particularly of  the Gulf Coast), hunting, English letters, friendship, and the faith so ancient and so new.”--D.E. Richardson|“The personal essays in Wedding the Wild Particular examine with sensitivity and poignancy the thought processes of people who hunt, and Benson recognizes that the entire exercise and those who participate in it are living on borrowed time.”—Tom Kelly, author of The Tenth Legion |“Robert Benson is a scholar, a teacher, a poet, and—not least—a hunter, who not only delights in the wild particulars of the natural world but finds them essential for his writing and teaching.”—John Shelton Reed