The Mindful Carnivore (35 page)

This chapter’s epigraph comes from Stange’s
Woman the Hunter
, 189.

Acknowledgments

My deepest thanks:

To Catherine Cerulli, for all the forms your love takes, for embracing my transformation, for believing in my writing before I did, for doing more than your share on the home front when I was glued to my desk, and for your keen editorial eye.

To Mark Cerulli, Jay Mason, Richard Czaplinski, Rob Bryan, Steve Wright, Damien Middelton, Ryan Johns, Tom Cady, and Drew Lanham, for accompanying me on the first legs of my journey into hunting, for helping me see what the pursuit could mean.

To Jan Clausen and Jane Lazarre, for encouraging my writing almost twenty years ago, and Ted Gup, for doing so more recently; and to Stephen Long, Jason McGarvey, and Nathan Kowalsky for providing the first opportunities to bring parts of this story to the printed page.

To my agent, Laurie Abkemeier, for having the skill, insight, good humor, and raw tenacity necessary to shepherd this book—and this author—through the wilderness of publishing; to my editor, Jessica Case, for being so enthusiastic about bringing this project to fruition, for doing everything possible to make it a success, and for offering many helpful questions and suggestions along the way; to everyone else at Pegasus Books who helped create this book; and to everyone at Open Road Media who published the digital versions and helped spread the word.

To Catherine Cerulli, Mark Cerulli, and Richard Czaplinski, again, and to Eric Nuse, Beth Segers, Mary Colleen Sinnott, Susan Morse, Daniel Herman, Adam Shprintzen, Ted Kerasote, Mary Zeiss Stange, and Marc Boglioli for reviewing portions of this manuscript and offering constructive comments.

To all my friends and family, for supporting this book even when it was only a glimmer of an idea, for asking questions and offering reflections, for helping me understand what this story was about; and to all the readers of my blog, for commenting on my posts and engaging each other in spirited and civil debate, for opening my eyes to new perspectives and challenging me to reconsider my own.

To the places that have shaped my life and to the creatures who have nourished me, body and soul.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, as “Life and Death,”
Northern Woodlands
13, no. 4 (2006): 9; “Whitetails: The Ever Changing Challenge,”
Massachusetts Wildlife
61, no. 4 (2006): 9-17; “Full Circle,”
Outdoor America
73, no. 1 (2008): 18-20; and “Hunting Like a vegetarian: Same Ethics, Different Flavors,”in
Hunting
—
Philosophy for Everyone: In Search of the Wild Life
, ed. Nathan Kowalsky (WestSussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 45-55.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint “The Peace of Wild Things,” Copyright © 1998 by Wendell Berry from
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
. Reprintedby permission of Counterpoint.

copyright © 2012 by Tovar Cerulli
interior design by Maria Fernandez

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