Landscapes with figures : the nonfiction of place / edited and with an introduction by Robert Root.

Other author Root, Robert L.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 294 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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Subjects

Contents On place / Kim Barnes -- Almost paradise / Kim Barnes -- Where time and place are lost / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- In the territory of birds / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Call and response / Elizabeth Dodd -- Fragments / Elizabeth Dodd -- Why I'm sick, and what I'm sick of / David Gessner -- Sick of nature / David Gessner -- Tipping the balance / Barbara Hurd -- Derichment / Barbara Hurd -- Writing "A salt marsh reclamation" / Lisa Knopp -- A salt marsh reclamation / Lisa Knopp -- Scratch Flat and the invention of place / John Hanson Mitchell -- The kingdom of ice / John Hanson Mitchell -- Writing about place / Simone Poirier-Bures -- The shepherds / Simone Poirier-Bures -- Discovering place / Robert Root -- Anasazi / Robert Root -- On "After the flood" and "Buckeye" / Scott Russell Sanders -- After the flood / Scott Russell Sanders -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- Over the rainbow, my kind of place / Reg Saner -- Mesa walk / Reg Saner -- Views from the desk / Natalia Rachel Singer -- In the courtyard of the Iguana Brothers / Natalia Rachel Singer -- Whereof / Deborah Tall -- Memory's landscapes / Deborah Tall.
General note"A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006028349
ISBN9780803259836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0803259832 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS689 .L36 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold