Native Echoes
Listening to the Spirit of the Land

Poetry and short story telling in a Native American tone and theme. It was relaxing to listen too and some what meditative. Thx NetGalley for the audio arc.......more

I have complex feeling about Native Echoes. This book includes beautiful prose and poetry however it fell flat for me. The author uses Native American traditional storytelling however is not Native American. Ultimately, I think I would have had a different experience if I read the book verses listen......more

When I first looked at this book, it sold itself as a book of poetry, but Native Echoes: Listening to the Spirit of the Land is actually more about author, Kent Nerburn's thoughts and reminiscing about his life, in a poetic fashion. I enjoyed the images created by Nerburn's words, with each story......more

Native Echos attempts to pay tribute to the land through the telling of indigenous traditions and through that lens. I struggled with connecting with the material. While it's a series of meditations and prose around the land of northern Minnesota and it seems to flow through the timeline of seasonal......more

Read this audiobook while walking slowly in the woods, it was such a great way to immerse myself into it. It felt like a journey through seasons, native american and western ways of thinking. The different perspectives interacting together brought lots of reflexions on the world. The quotes were a n......more