Sisters of the Earth Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature

Name: Sisters of the Earth Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature
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ISBN: 9781400033218

ISBN-10: 1400033217

ISBN-13: 9781400033218

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Lorraine Anderson

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Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioning an alternative world in which human beings are not estranged from their planet; and Julia Butterfly Hill on weathering a fierce storm in the redwood tree where she lived for more than two years. Here, too, are poems, essays, stories, and journal entries by Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker, Terry Tempest Williams, Willa Cather, Gretel Erlich,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.95" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Fire



Beginning with a Place



The Joy-Song of Nature



The First Roots Creep Up



Blossoming Pear Tree



Breaklight



Believing the Bond



Luna



The South Corner



A White Heron



Being Still



Home to the Wilderness



The Magnolia Tree



A Breeze Swept Through



The Many and the One



I Will Lie Down



Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew



A Rinse in the River



Sandstone Seduction



River, O River



Christmas in Driftwood Valley



Jaunt from Nulato



Visual Opium



Why?



Spring in the City



Childhood on White Island



Green Thoughts in a Green Shade



My Mississippi Spring



A Bouquet of Wild Flowers



Glimpses of Salem



On the Hills



Trek to Blue Lake



Night in the Country



Love Poem



Why Do You Keep Those Cats?



Gabimichigami



Looking for Abbey's Lion



The Recognition



The Source of a River



Wilderness in the Blood



Annunciation



A Different Sympathy



Night Song



Becoming Feral



The Safety Behind Me



In the Open



The Feel of the Outdoors



In a Valley of Peace



The Angry Lunch Cafe



The Storm



The Old One and the Wind



My Help Is in the Mountain and Earth Cure Me



The Ancient People



Journal Entries



Daystar



The Bowl



Lesson 1 and Lesson 2



State of Grace



Cured by Flowers



Meadow Turf



The Nature Cure - For the Body



Longing



The Balsam Fir



The Back-Road



My Desert Pond



The Miracle of Renewal



Depression in Winter



Come into Animal Presence



The Heart's Fox



Happiness



Sudden Knowing



The Word



To Build a Dam



Two Creatures of the Long-Shadowed Forest



The Fawn



Feathered Philosophers



A Sadness



A Little Nomad



A Wonder Tale



Drama on a Wooden Fence



Houseguest



Dance of Giants



Changing



Among My Closet Friends



The Old Cherry Tree



In Praise of Trees



The Man



The Last Antelope



The Hunt and Use



Audubon



Who?



Earth's Green Mantle



Bonelight



Love Canal



The Alegria Canyon and Afterword



When Earth becomes an "It"



The Hewers of Wood



Fallen Forests



Bitter Root Rituals, Stanzas I, II, and III



Clearcut



Contradictions: Tracking Poems, Part 18



Spirit of Love



Turning to Another Way



Eve Revisited



The Rainbow Bridge



Kopis'taya (A Gathering of Spirits)



Declaration of the Four Sacred Things


Native Origin



The Common Living Dirt



What Holds the Water, What Holds the Light



Amazing Grace



Dynamics



End of the Beginning



Mind in the Waters



May's Lion



Demeter



Acknowledgments


Bibliography and Further Reading


Index of Authors and Titles