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Title

Elemental South : an anthology of southern nature writing / edited by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dallmeyer, Dorinda G.

Description

xvi, 153 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Nature > Literary collections
• American literature > Southern States
• Natural history > Southern States > Literary collections
• Southern States > Literary collections

Contents

Foreword : our mutual friend, June 27, 1941-December 8, 2002 / Franklin Burroughs -- Home / Melissa Walker -- Black drink / James Kilgo -- Where, beneath the magnolia / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Eating / Rick Bass -- Hounds chasing deer in the suburbs / John Lane -- You are what you eat / Thomas Rain Crowe -- The bottomland / John Lane -- Bears / Bill Belleville -- Raccoons, a history / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Islands / Christopher Camuto -- Sun time / Thomas Rain Crowe -- Into the dragon's mouth / Jan DeBlieu -- Riding bareback through the universe / Janisse Ray -- Air / Christopher Camuto -- Of / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Origin moment / Susan Cerulean -- Fire in the path / Christopher Camuto -- Built by fire / Janisse Ray -- Rock springs / Melissa Walker -- Fire-wings / Janisse Ray -- Smoke and mirrors / Franklin Burroughs -- Butterfly / Janisse Ray -- First spring flood / John Lane -- For the edge of the world / Janisse Ray -- The white heron / Melissa Walker -- Sweetgum country / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Diving into the heart of a poem / Bill Belleville -- Water / Christopher Camuto -- The seat of courage / Janisse Ray -- Epilogue : why we write -- What the creek teaches / John Lane -- God willing and the creeks don't rise / Thomas Rain Crowe -- Where love may find its ground / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Reasons / Janisse Ray -- Wildness in the garden and the wilderness / Melissa Walker -- The place of writing in the world / Franklin Burroughs -- Becoming southern / Christopher Camuto -- Claim staked / Jan DeBlieu -- Writing the birds / Susan Cerulean -- Losses and gains / Rick Bass -- The un-manifesto : take a hike / Bill Belleville.

ISBN

• 0820326658 (alk. paper)
• 0820326895 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004007411

OCLC

• ocm54913727
• SCSB-5125109

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries