Earthquakes and GardensEssays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth century hagiography. In Jeromes Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more than human worldsthe earth and its godsthat surround