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The tenth volume in this exemplary series of contemporary nature writing is devoted to women writers, and it is a unique and radiant collection. Emma Brown writes about working for the Forest Service in central Idaho, then facing the loss of that "beloved place" in a forest fire. L.A. journalist Penelope Grenoble O'Malley writes with candor and discernment about urban nature and why "a small patch of open land next to the freeway" is sacred, and Chinle Miller hauntingly explicates the profound link between nature and language and the universe of meaning condemned to disappear as Native American languages go e
The tenth volume in this exemplary series of contemporary nature writing is devoted to women writers, and it is a unique and radiant collection. Emma Brown writes about working for the Forest Service in central Idaho, then facing the loss of that "beloved place" in a forest fire. L.A. journalist Penelope Grenoble O'Malley writes with candor and discernment about urban nature and why "a small patch of open land next to the freeway" is sacred, and Chinle Miller hauntingly explicates the profound link between nature and language and the universe of meaning condemned to disappear as Native American languages go extinct. Readers won't expect to find an essay about September 11 in a nature anthology, and, indeed, Leigh Calvez's exquisite meditation is an astonishment on many levels as she relates what it was like to learn about that fateful day's tragedies deep in the wilds of British Columbia. As each gifted contributor makes clear, there is no separation between people, place, and animals. We're all intimately linked, for better and for worse.
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Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
Release date: 11 February 2003
ISBN-10 : 1555913539 |
ISBN-13: 9781555913533
Tags: Soul (1), Poetry (1), Native American (1), Spirituality (1), Essays (1), Animals (1), Nature (1), Ecology (1), Wonder (1), Reverence (1), SnP (1), X-the Mystery (1), Attention (1), Place (1)
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