This book looks at an animal poetics in the short stories of Montana eco-writer Rick Bass. It looks at the manners in which Bass' fictional writing plays an essential role in protecting the non-human world and celebrating the value of animal modes of being. It attempts to give voice to a fiction that is outstandingly activist and inherently poetic

The work elaborates a thought of the Woolfian poetics whose plastic, moving articulation is the sentence, such as the English language designates it by the word "a phrase". The work is thus an essay of poetics that stands out from the biographical, historicizing approaches that dominate in Woolfian criticism. that make it an original work.

How do you think about this experience of reading? The author reinserts this question to a reflection on justice as attention to the other and on the media as a connection; Hence a conception of reading as care and care, according to a friendly model whose history it recalls in connection with the development of the printed media.