Daniel (poet, author, and writer-in-residence at Ohio State University's Center for the Humanities) writes 100 pages of his own natural history, describing a boyhood catching small, wild animals and hunting junk on a stream in semirural Washington D.C.; working on the railroad and listening to hobo stories in eastern Oregon; and explaining his evolving belief in evolution. The pace is stroll-like, and John Daniel's development as a writer is the path running through it all. Scott Slovic, series editor, provides a portrait of the author following Daniel's memoir, and hard on the heels of that is a bibliography of Daniel's work. A sample and greatly foreshortened Danielian reflection: "The problem may not be that language falsifies experience, as I worried in my twenties, but that to one extent or another language can come to replace experience." No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)