Environmental and nature writing : a writer's guide and anthology / Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins

Author: Prentiss, Sean, 1972-
Additional Titles: Writer's guide and anthology
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Physical Description: xiii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Wilkins, Joe

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Contents

An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing. The trailhead -- A short history of nature and environmental writing -- The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing. Seeing the world, believing the world -- Living maps -- The writer in place -- People and place -- The river above, the river below -- The art of activism -- A world larger than ourselves -- The nature and environmental essay, story, and poem -- One more time to the river : writing is rewriting -- A trail guide -- Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology. Creative Nonfiction. Geologies : an investigation / Chelsea Biondolillo -- Pack rat / John Daniel -- Tales from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning / Camille T. Dungy -- Nature writing by the numbers / David Gessner -- Exposed : the mammogram myth and the pinkwashing of America / Jennifer Lunden -- Burning the shelter / Louis Owens -- Spring ends in Bangor, PA / Sean Prentiss -- Hell yeah we want windmills / Erik Reece -- The other side of fire / Leslie Ryan -- Trapline : an Ojibwe man's search for identity on the Canadian Taiga / David Treuer -- Fiction. Family reunion / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Border / Alyson Hagy -- Cartography / Bonnie Nadzam -- Mule killers / Lydia Peelle -- The caves of Oregon / Benjamin Percy -- Like bread the light / Joe Wilkins -- Poetry. Creation myth : periosteum and self / Elizabeth Bradfield -- I was popular in certain circles / Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- What my neighbor tells me isn't global warming / Todd Davis -- Weekly apocalyptic, or poem written on the wall in an ascending space capsule / Chris Dombrowski -- Resurrection of the errand girl / Nikky Finney -- Water water water wind water / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Migration / Major Jackson -- Remembering Minidoka / W. Todd Kaneko -- River keeper / Laurie Kutchins -- Emerging view / Anne Haven McDonnell -- Coos Bay / Michael McGriff -- Explaining seafood to my future grandkids after the extinction / Juan Morales -- Lewis and Clark disagree / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- The natural world / G.E. Patterson -- Stripping / Sean Prentiss -- As a species flies from extinction, consider the river / Derek Sheffield -- Migration of baling twine / Julia Shipley -- The feed / M.L. Smoker -- Theories of time and space / Natasha Trethewey -- Seven devils / Joe Wilkins -- Tire hut : Seaview, Washington / Maya Jewell Zeller.

Summary

"A practical guide to the art and craft of nature writing, covering non-fiction, fiction, poetry and polemical writing"--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN

9781472592521 (hardback)
1472592522 (hardback)
9781472592538 (paperback)
1472592530 (paperback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2017

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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