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Informationen zum Autor Susan Wittig Albert is the founder and past president of the Story Circle Network. She lives near Austin, Texas. Susan Hanson teaches in the English Department at Texas State University-San Marcos. Jan Epton Seale is a poet and fiction writer in McAllen, Texas. Paula Stallings Yost, founder of LifeSketches/Heirloom Memoirs, is a personal historian and publisher in Yantis, Texas, near Dallas. Klappentext Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of writing-as well as from previously published work by writers including Joy Harjo, Denise Chávez, Diane Ackerman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Anzaldua, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barbara Kingsolver-the editors of this book have drawn nearly a hundred pieces that witness both to the ever-changing, ever-mysterious life of the natural world and to the vivid, creative, evolving lives of women interacting with it.Through prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and their own inner landscapes as women living on the land-the congruence of where they are and who they are. The editors have grouped the writings around eight evocative themes:The way we live on the landOur journeys through the landNature in citiesNature at riskNature that sustains usOur memories of the landOur kinship with the animal worldWhat we leave on the land when we are goneFrom the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer the exclusive domain of men, that women bring unique and transformative perspectives to this genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Kathleen Dean MooreEditor's Note by Susan Wittig AlbertA Land Full of Stories Laura Girardeau, Easter, Picacho PeakCindy Bellinger, This Land on My FaceGloria Vando, HE 2-104: A True Planetary Nebula in the MakingLinda Hogan, DwellingsJoanne Smith, Seasons of a HermitJan Seale, PalapaLuci Tapahonso, A Song for the Direction of NorthLuci Tapahonso, Tsaile April NightsJudith Ann Isaacs, The Land's SongDonna Marie Miller, Mexican SunflowersAnn Woodin, Spring in the DesertAnn Zwinger, First SnowfallGeographies: Journey Notes Sandra Lynn, GeographiesSusan Hanson, The Act of AttentionJudith Strasser, Contemplating Quantum Mechanics One Morning at the Rio Grande GorgeJudith Strasser, Yom Kippur Fast in TaosSusan Zwinger, Coming of Age in the Grand CanyonLinda Elizabeth Peterson, Into the EscalantePatricia Wellingham-Jones, On the Lip of the Rio Grande GorgeLinda Joy Myers, Songs of the PlainsMary E. Young, View from a Hot Air BalloonLiza Porter, She CouldSusan J. Tweit, Riding the River HomeDenise Chávez, Four Meditations on the Colorado RiverLianne Elizabeth Mercer, SunriseDiane Ackerman, Working on the TequesquitePat Ellis Taylor, Indian Hot SpringsLaura Girardeau, Natural BridgesNancy Mairs, Writing WestMary Sojourner, ClosingHome Address: The Nature of Urban Life Naomi Shihab Nye, Home AddressJudith E. Bowen, MowingSandra S. Smith, Madrugadora/Early RiserSueEllen Campbell, The World Is a NestConnie Spittler, One Scarlet PenstemonPat Mora, Voces del JardínLisa Shirah-Hiers, Spinning Water into GoldSybil Estess, Sunset on the BayouLeslie Marmon Silko, The People and the Land ARE InseparableJanice Emily Bowers, A Full Life in a Small PlaceJan Jarboe Russell, Into the WoodsEarth Is an Island: Nature at Risk Ceirid...
