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"A fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids."—Dave Eggers
How fully can the world be explored when you are focused on trying not to die?
This is the question that lies at the heart of Amy Fusselman’s Savage Park. America is the land of safety, of protecting children to make sure that nothing can possibly hurt them. But while on a trip to Tokyo with her family, Fusselman stumbled upon an adventure playground called Hanegi Playpark, where children sawed wood, hammered nails, and built open fires. Her conceptions of space, risk, and play were shattered. In asking us to reexamine fundamental ideas about our approaches to space and risk and how we pass these concepts down to our children, Fusselman also asks us to look at the world in a different way. Perhaps it isn’t variety, but fear that is the spice of life. This startling revelation is at the heart of Savage Park, and will make readers look at the world in a whole new way.
“I yield to no one in my admiration for Amy Fusselman’s work. Her new book, Savage Park, further explores with astonishing power, eloquence, precision, and acid humor her obsessive, necessary theme: the gossamer-thin separation between life and death.” —David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
“In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and why playing should be taken seriously.” —Philippe Petit, high-wire artist
- Sales Rank: #1321873 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-05
- Released on: 2016-01-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .38" w x 5.31" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
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Advance Praise for Savage Park:
"In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and, why playing should be taken seriously. I should add, she frightened me with: It is still illegal to climb a tree in Central Park!"
—Philippe Petit, High Wire Artist
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Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America’s obsession with safety is prompted by the author’s visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo.
How fully can the world be explored, asks Amy Fusselman, if you are also trying not to die?
On a visit to Tokyo with her family, Fusselman stumbles on Hanegi Playpark, where children are sawing wood, hammering nails, stringing hammocks to trees, building open fires. When she returns to New York, her conceptions of space, risk, and fear are completely changed. Fusselman invites us along on her tightrope-walking expeditions with Philippe Petit and her late-night adventures with Tokyo park workers, showing that when we deprive ourselves and our children of the experience of taking risks in space, we make them less safe, not more so.
Savage Park is a fresh, poetic reconsideration of behaviors in our culture that—in the guise of protecting us—make us numb and encourage us to sleepwalk through our lives. We babyproof our homes; we plug our ears with our devices while walking through the city. What would happen if we exposed ourselves, if—like the children at Hanegi park—we put ourselves in situations that require true vigilance?
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How fully can the world be explored when you are focused on trying not to die?
This is the question that lies at the heart of Amy Fusselman’s Savage Park. America is the land of safety, of protecting children to make sure that nothing can possibly hurt them. But while on a trip to Tokyo with her family, Fusselman stumbled upon an adventure playground called Hanegi Playpark, where children sawed wood, hammered nails, and built open fires. Her conceptions of space, risk, and play were shattered. In asking us to reexamine fundamental ideas about our approaches to space and risk and how we pass these concepts down to our children, Fusselman also asks us to look at the world in a different way. Perhaps it isn’t variety, but fear that is the spice of life. This startling revelation is at the heart of Savage Park, and will make readers look at the world in a whole new way.
“I yield to no one in my admiration for Amy Fusselman’s work. Her new book, Savage Park, further explores with astonishing power, eloquence, precision, and acid humor her obsessive, necessary theme: the gossamer-thin separation between life and death.” —David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
“In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and why playing should be taken seriously.” —Philippe Petit, high-wire artist
AMY FUSSELMAN is the author of The Pharmacist’s Mate and 8. As “Dr.” Fusselman, she writes the Family Practice parenting column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Ms., Hairpin, and ARTnews.
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A meditation on what makes us feel alive
By Michael J. Edelman
When I was a small child, in the 1960s, it was not unusual for children as young as 5 or 6 years of age to wander about their neighborhood, visiting friends, playgrounds, and other areas of interest on their own, or with other friends, independent of adult supervision. When I was around 7 or 8 my slightly older sister would lead groups of us on nature hikes that involved hikes through swampy ground, searching for snakes and turtles, so of which we’d bring home. So long as we came home for lunch and dinner, our parents didn’t worry too much. If we got into trouble there’d be an adult somewhere who’d help us. The name of the rural paradise we lived in? Northwest Detroit.
Today things are different, and not just in the big cities. Parents are not only afraid to leave their children out of their sight, they’re afraid to let children do anything that might involve the slightest risk. In the 60s we had steel monkey bars to climb on, and we ran on sidewalks and gravel-covered playgrounds, and scraped knees were part of then price for having fun. Every boy had patches on the knees of his pants, and it seemed every girl had a pair of bandaids on her knees.
Today that would be looked upon as a sign of neglect, or worse. I learned to use sharp tools, to pound nails with a hammer, and to climb trees up as high as I could. The best climbing structure at my day camp was the empty hulk of a 1950s-era fighter jet. There weren’t many organized sports outside of little league. Today, every playground is covered with soft shredded rubber, there are no hard objects that could bruise a child, no heights to fall from. There’s always a parent standing by to catch a child if they fall- if children even visit playgrounds. A lot of them spend their tim e playing in the virtual world, where people blow up, but are reborn for the next round of play. They grow up to be adults who do the same.
And so author Amy Fusselman was shocked when she encountered, in Tokyo, what was described by a friend as a “fantastic” playground in clean, modern, antiseptic, Tokyo. It was called the “Junk Playground,” and what it looked like was a junkyard, full of junked vehicles, boats, tire, construction equipment, and other items that would have been carted off by HAZMAT-equipped cleanup squads if they appeared in any modern suburban American playground. It was, in short, a child’s paradise for play and make believe, and it made Fusselman begin to rethink the modern model of children’s play, and her own increasingly risk-free life as well.
Risk free childhoods lead to adults who expect and desire risk-free lives. We surround d ourselves with gated communities that keep out strangers and lawyers whom we deploy at the slightest sign of injury, no matter how minor. We seek pain and risk free lives, but in so doing we numb ourselves to life. Without the risk of failure, there is no joy in accomplishment. Mountain climbers do not actively seek to increase their risk, but they do feel greater exhilaration when they conquer it.
Savage Park is a meditation on how we’ve insulated ourselves from pain, and in so doing from joy, as well. It’s an argument for living in the world more fully, taking risks, falling down, getting up again, and tasting life.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
We Eliminate Risk at Our Own Peril
By M. JEFFREY MCMAHON
Visiting family friends in Tokyo recently, journalist Amy Fusselman was reluctant to go and resented her friend’s nonchalant attitude about Amy taking her two small children and husband there. What a huge hassle full of jet lag and fussy kids. But replacing her tinge of resentment was a revelation: There’s a whole different way of seeing the world over here.
Her friend in Japan Yelena helps Amy understand that we don’t own the spaces we inhabit. We can “call home” any place we go and embrace it in the present. This revelation prompted Fusselman to contemplate the nature of space in general and in playgrounds specifically. At an “adventure playground” in Tokyo, Amy sees a radically different approach to play than in America. In Tokyo, the kids have access to hammers and heights and other activities that wouldn’t never pass American safety codes.
Amy goes on to write in her autobiographical manifesto: “American playgrounds can’t look like Hanegi Playpark because Americans refuse to make peace with their own death and dying. This approach is built into the culture at the most profound levels, and the mostly unconscious indoctrination into this perspective begins very young.” In other words, our obsession with safety has deodorized and sterilized the spirit of real play and this American sensibility deeply disturbs Fusselman. She goes on to argue that we can be more fully human by not trying to impose so much control over ourselves and by being vulnerable.
This is a very smartly written, original and ambitious book that speaks volumes about the way our risk-aversion kills our spirit, soul, and creativity. Highly recommended.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
esoteric essay on parenting, risk and death which is not for everyone
By Just Me
I found many more books on the topic which did a better job of addressing the issues. Fusselman's book seemed to go off on weird tangents and didn't go as deeply into the issue as the other books on the topic that I have read. I found Fusselman's writing to be esoteric. It is full of tedious sentences and thoughts which I found bizarre. For example, "I don't know what to say to this in polite conversation, because when I hear things like this about creativity, I want to cry. I want to cry because my understanding of creativity is that creativity, in its fullest, most cherry-blossom-ish flowering, wants to piss on your grave...Creativity wants to set fire to ever greeting card you ever made. Creativity wants Grandpa to die already so it can race his Oldsmobile off the deck and into the lake." Or, "The reason we don't think of this reciprocal relationship, of course, is that we don't believe that objects have views, per se. We believe that objects are inanimate. They sit there lifeless until we pick them up, and then they are useful or not and we can master them or not according to our desires. All objects are puppets to us in this way." If this has meaning and benefit to you, then this would be the book for you. If, like me, it does not, then I would recommend some other books (see below).
I found Fusselman to be obsessed with death herself. She talks about writing wills over and over during her elementary school years. Although I, as do all, children wrestled with the concept of death, this seems a bit much to me, and perhaps offers a clue as to why she ended up writing this book. I am glad that she is able to let her children take risks, despite her fears, but I found many other books which better addressed this issue. Looking at it more from the vantage of an "average" concerned parent than from the point of view of a philosophically oriented woman with concerns about death that greatly precede her becoming a mother. I believe a psychological look is more worthwhile to most parents than a philosophical one. That said, if you are indeed looking for philosophy, you will find it here and would likely be one of the readers who would appreciate what is on offer here.
Other books for those not so philosophically oriented but looking for psychological and practical insights: Free-Range Kids, The Kids Will Be Fine, How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm, and The Paranoid Parent's Guide.
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