Research Catalog

Title

Literature and the environment : a reader on nature and culture / [compiled by] Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, John P. O'Grady.

Publication

New York : Longman, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anderson, Lorraine, 1952-
• Slovic, Scott, 1960-
• O'Grady, John P., 1958-

Description

xix, 538 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Longman literature and culture series

Uniform Title

Longman literature and culture series

Subjects

• Literary collections
• American literature
• Human ecology > Literary collections
• Culture > Environmental aspects > Literary collections
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The human animal. Our animal selves. The honey tree / Mary Oliver -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- Irregular flight / Kent Nelson -- from The etiquette of freedom / Gary Snyder -- Song of the taste / Gary Snyder -- La mariposa, butterfly woman / Clarissa Pinkola Estés -- Collecting myself / Lester Rowntree -- The erotic landscape / Terry Tempest Williams -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Of hawks and men : a weekend in the male wilderness / Jon Tevlin -- Solitude / Henry David Thoreau -- O rotten Gotham / Tom Wolfe -- Knot / Pattiann Rogers -- Close encounters. Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov -- A blessing / James Wright -- I think I could turn and live with animals / Walt Whitman -- The crow in the woods / John Updike -- A city person encountering nature / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Crab-boil / Rita Dove -- Apologia / Barry Lopez -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- The creatures on my mind / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Just like us? / Harper's Forum -- In the abode of the snows / Pat Murphy -- Story from bear country / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Muddy prints on mohair / Peter Coyote -- Hunting and fishing. A dog sleeping on my feet / James Dickey -- The willingness of a deer to die / Wintu tribe -- The gifts / Richard K. Nelson -- The buck / Joyce Carol Oates -- from Fellow creatures / Paul Shepard -- The hunt / Susan Griffin -- Thinking like a mountain / Aldo Leopold -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Fight with a 20-pound trout / Ernest Hemingway -- The fish / Elizabeth BIshop.
• Inhabiting place. Imprint of the land. Incarnation / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Touching the earth / bell hooks -- What holds the water, what holds the light / Linda Hogan -- Sonora Desert poem / Lucille Clifton -- A wind-storm in the forests / John Muir -- A blizzard under blue sky / Pam Houston -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Forever / Simon J. Ortiz -- Alone on a mountaintop / Jack Kerouac -- The memory place / Barbara Kingsolver -- The walling of awareness / Jerry Mander -- The secret lion / Alberto Ríos -- Haciendo apenas la recolección / Tino Villanueva -- Visions of home. Stay home / Wendell Berry -- On a scrap of land in Henry County / Carol Polsgrove -- Living by life : some bioregional theory and practice / Jim Dodge -- Where you at? A bioregional quiz / Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley -- The flora and fauna of Las Vegas / Ellen Meloy -- On Willow Creek / Rick Bass -- A word in favor of rootlessness / John Daniel -- What's in Alaska? / Raymond Carver -- Nature / Luther Standing Bear -- Rock garden / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Curandera / Pat Mora -- Second chance at paradise / William Kittredge -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- The gift outright / Robert Frost -- Politics of place. Long division : a tribal history / Wendy Rose -- This place / Beth Brant -- Exile : El Paso, Texas / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. White -- Sorrow home / Margaret Walker -- Building a more inclusive environmental movement / Running-Grass -- Alien soil / Jamaica Kincaid -- Eminent domain : a love story / Dan O'Brien -- The world according to Cushman / Margaret L. Knox -- Eco-defense / Edward Abbey -- The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams.
• Economy and ecology. Getting and spending. The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Assembly line / B. Traven -- Work we hate and dreams we love / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- "Take this job and shove it" / Theodore Roszak -- The conundrum of consumption / Alan Thein Durning -- We alone / Alice Walker -- Living lightly and inconsistently on the land / Donella Meadows -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Harvest / Meridel LeSueur -- A good scythe / Wendell Berry -- On human connectedness with nature / Martin W. Lewis -- Land use. Sand roads : the development / Marge Piercy -- Line of credit / Louise Erdrich -- Confessions of a developer / Wallace Kaufman -- A brook in the city / Robert Frost -- A woman's land / Sallie Bingham -- from An island / John McPhee -- Rain at night / W.S. Merwin -- The physics of beauty / Sharman Apt Russell -- The environmental mindset / Rush Limbaugh III -- WIlderness letter / Wallace Stegner -- The American Indian wilderness / Louis Owens -- Peril and response. Tar / C.K. Williams -- The last antelope / Mary Austin -- World scientists' warning to humanity / Union of Concerned Scientists -- The end is not at hand / Robert J. Samuelson -- Not so fast / Bill McKibben -- Are people an environmental pollution? / Julian L. Simon -- Passenger pigeons / Robinson Jeffers -- Of man and the stream of time / Rachel Carson -- Baring the atom's mother heart / Marilou Awiakta -- Devil deer / Rudolfo Anaya -- The circle is the way to see / Joseph Bruchac -- Renewing the earth / U.S. Bishops.

ISBN

032101149X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98029887^

OCLC

• 39335573
• SCSB-10989474

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library