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to the special excitement of holidays

and scared all at once

a walk in the woods will never be the same again

while offering an affirming way to understand

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country by Kim Barnes curiosities to the special excitement ofPoet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid 1960's, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of the wilderness and into despair,