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1 online resource (xxii, 292 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Wildbranch...is a powerful collection of essays and poetry by both prominent American environmental writers and exciting new voices. The work of more than fifty contributors offers the reader glimpses into places as diverse as a forest in West Africa, the moors of Ireland, the canyons of the Sonoran Desert mountains, and the fields of New England, and they reflect the varied perspectives of field biologists, hunters, farmers, environmental educators, wilderness guides, academics, writers, and artists. The collection is an intimate portrait of the natural world drawn through the wisdom, ecological consciousness, and open hearts of these exceptional contributors." (page 4 of cover) |
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Foreword / H. Emerson Blake -- Preface / Florence Caplow and Susan A. Cohen -- A Brief history of Wildbranch / Dave Brown -- pt. 1 : Intimacy -- Des ta te : a love story / Paul Grindrod -- White wings out of dark sky / Alison Townsend -- Between green flannel sheets splattered with Portuguese roses / Alison Townsend -- Exaltation of elk / Janisse Ray -- Letter to Douglas / Tony Cross -- This ground made of trees / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- To Liv / Jennifer Barton -- Dispute with Thomas Hardy / Sydney Lea -- Yellow-bellied sapsucker, Craftsbury Common, Vermont / David Haskell -- Migrations / Glenda Cotter -- Spirits / Glenda Cotter -- Fourth night magic / Robert Kimber -- Fishing with George / Jim Collins -- Calling the dove / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer -- Mine / Stephanie Joelle Renfrow -- Over / Elizabeth Wynn Banks -- pt. 2 : Speaking of place -- Hiking the Fakahatchee Strand / Linda Maree -- Dividing spring / Brent Martin -- Aubade / Julia Shipley -- Hornbills o'plenty : birdwatching by bike in West Africa / Philip Johansson -- Bench / Ann B. Day -- Leaving Dorland Mountain / Alison Townsend -- Prairie skin / Susan Futrell -- Settling / Rachel Shaw -- Return / Andrea M. Jones -- Meditations on my home town / Heather Fitzgerald -- Pink ribbons / Eve Quesnel -- Blackroot River / Mira Bartók. |
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pt. 3 : What comes from the land -- Fetching water / Garrett Conover -- Meat / Steve Bodio -- Dear bowl / Susan A. Cohen -- Demeter, fond of cycles / Janice Dukes -- Bean by bean / Terra Brockman -- Rolling the turf / Meghan McCarthy McPhaul -- For the love of a good tomato / Charlotte Pyle -- pt. 4 : On perceiving and knowing -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- La Joie du criquet / Jeffery A. Lockwood -- Divination / Sydney Lea -- Degrees of damage in Blue River / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Web / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Cow of the virgin / Robert J. Romano Jr. -- Least terns, St. Catherine's Island, Georgia / David Haskell -- A Day at Agua Dulce / G. Davies Jandrey -- Small things / John Bates -- Wisdom of turtles / Micael J. Caduto -- Crow speaks his mind / H.C. Palmer -- Work of turkey vultures / H.C. Palmer -- A Pure color / Simmons B. Buntin -- Standing still / Aleria Jensen -- Beauty and the birds / Ted Cable -- Then come crows / Cherie Staples -- Ecologist / Louise Fabiani -- A Leaf is a book is a river / Mira Bartók -- pt. 5 : For the children/for the future -- Peepers / Aleria Jensen -- A Letter to my daughter : from the Bayley-Hazen Road, Greensboro, Vermont / Ned Olmsted -- Jupiter came down Tuesday / Maureen Sullivan -- Blue egg / Peter Shepherd -- Hatch / April Newlin -- Drawer of inhaled objects / Mira Bartók -- Worst trap in the world / Jules Older -- Seeds / Florence Caplow -- For the children / Scott Russell Sanders -- Acknowledgments -- Wildbranch faculty -- About the authors. |
| Summary |
Contained in this volume is a collection of essays and poetry by both prominent American environmental writers and new voices. The poetry and essays by more than fifty contributors offer the reader glimpses into places as diverse as a forest in West Africa, the moors of Ireland, the canyons of the Sonoran desert mountains, and the fields of New England. They reflect the varied perspectives of field biologists, hunters, farmers, environmental educators, wilderness guides, academics, writers, and artists. The collection is a portrait of the natural world drawn through the wisdom, ecological consciousness, and open hearts of these contributors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature -- Literary collections.
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Nature. |
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Literary collections.
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Ecology -- Literary collections.
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Ecology. |
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Environmental protection -- Literary collections.
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Environmental protection. |
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Electronic books.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Caplow, Florence, 1964- editor.
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Cohen, Susan, 1956- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wildbranch. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2010] 9781607811244 (DLC) 2010035085 (OCoLC)639161479 |
| ISBN |
9781607811244 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1607811243 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781607814030 (electronic book) |
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160781403X (electronic book) |
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