Full Description
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction alongside an extensive anthology of models, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of styles. Now fully revised and updated throughout, this second edition features: a whole new chapter on place-based activities; a more international look at the genre with a completely revised anthology; and a greater focus on climate justice and sustainable transformation. With discussion questions, writing prompts and new extended experiential activities throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology covers such topics as:
· The history of writing about the environment from the ancient world to contemporary works
· Image, description and metaphor
· Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction
· Researching, revising and publishing
· Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic
The craft guide and anthology now wholly conversant to give an in-depth look at the various ways to write about the environment, the book also includes inspiring examples of work by Ross Gay, Mazimiliane Donicht, Nick Neely, Camille T. Dungy, Amy Nezhukumatathil, John Hausdoerffer among many others!
Contents
Part I: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing
1. The Trailhead
2. A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing
Part II: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing
3: Seeing the World, Believing the World
4: Living Maps
5: People and Place
6: The River Above, the River Below
7: The Art of Activism
8: A World Larger than Ourselves
9: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem
10: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting
11: A Trail Guide
12: Place-Based Activities
Part III Environmental and Nature Writing Anthology
Creative Nonfiction
Fiction
Poetry
Index
