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Echolocation by Sage Marshall

It’s not often you will catch me reading poetry and it is often hard to catch me reading fiction to be honest. I like fiction, it is a wonderful escape, but often reading fiction requires me to really concentrate on only that book in between my fingers. I have been trained over my 54 years on this planet to multi-task. I tend to avoid doing tasks that require a completely singular focus but I can do it and I honestly know I should do it more often, reading that is.

Sage Marshall and I had spoken briefly a year or so back before I even knew that he was a poet and a serious writer. I had read a few of his articles that had been published and we had talked about having him write something for our magazine but we couldn’t figure out a plan and the project fell off the radar. This last month in my planning to go to the Outdoor Media Summit in Missoula, I saw Sage’s name on the speaker list and I saw a quick review of his book. I jumped at the chance to reach out, told him I had a crisp $20.00 bill burning a hole in my pocket and I wanted a copy of his book of poetry.

This book has been my traveling companion for the better part of the last 20 days. My laptop, a pen, a notebook and my copy of ECHOLOCATION by Sage Marshall. I have read this book cover to cover and I have gone back to several poems while on flights due to a busy month of travel. Sage is significantly younger than I am and about 10x-the-writer that I am. His poems are tough and vulnerable. There are a few poems about hunting or fishing but mostly they are about life and growing up and being able to answer to yourself.

I am not sure I fully understand all of these poems, I can accept that I may not necessarily need to understand them. The great news is that I read them all and they took my mind on a journey that made me think about something other than the business at hand right in front of me. Reading this book was a journey that I am glad I took on and it is a book that will now go on my book shelf. It is a book I am proud to own and to have read. I believe this book will get pulled back off that shelf again someday on a different journey and I will probably learn something different from it. I encourage you to go and purchase it and go on your own journey with Sage’s writing.

Kevin Paulson

Kevin Paulson is the Founder and CEO of HuntingLife.com. His passion for Hunting began at the age of 5 hunting alongside of his father. Kevin has followed his dreams through outfitting, conservation work, videography and hunting trips around the world.

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