Full Description
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology covers such topics as:
· The history of writing about the environment
· Image, description and metaphor
· Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction
· Researching, revising and publishing
· Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic
The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.
Contents
Section 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 1: The Trailhead
Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing
Section 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World
Chapter 4: Living Maps
Chapter 5: The Writer in Place
Chapter 6: People and Place
Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below
Chapter 8: The Art of Activism
Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves
Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem
Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting
Chapter 12: A Trail Guide
Section 3: 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 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
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 Balling 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
