The Dream of the Marsh Wren

The Dream of the Marsh Wren PDF Author: Pattiann Rogers
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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A poet, a mother, a lover of the land, and a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. The Dream of the Marsh Wren reveals the genesis of some of her most admired poems as well as her conception of how and why she writes.

The Dream of the Marsh Wren

The Dream of the Marsh Wren PDF Author: Pattiann Rogers
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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A poet, a mother, a lover of the land, and a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. The Dream of the Marsh Wren reveals the genesis of some of her most admired poems as well as her conception of how and why she writes.

Making Nature Sacred

Making Nature Sacred PDF Author: John Gatta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195165050
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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This book argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history.

Ecology and Literatures in English

Ecology and Literatures in English PDF Author: Françoise Besson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152752339X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.

Peak Experiences

Peak Experiences PDF Author: Ian Marshall
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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In Peak Experiences, Marshall sets out on a far more personal and far-reaching journey: to discover how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being.".

National Wetlands Newsletter

National Wetlands Newsletter PDF Author:
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Category : Wetland conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Writing Wild

Writing Wild PDF Author: Tina Welling
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608682862
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Align Your Creative Energy with Nature’s “Everything we know about creating,” writes Tina Welling, “we know intuitively from the natural world.” In Writing Wild, Welling details a three-step “Spirit Walk” process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity.

to Z of Creative Writing Methods

to Z of Creative Writing Methods PDF Author: Deborah Wardle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350184233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice. Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged in multi-media writing or writing-related arts activism. Contributors bring to this collection their distinct and diverse literary and cultural contexts, defining, expanding and enacting the methods they describe, and providing new possibilities for creative writing practice. Accessible and provocative, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods lays bare new developments and directions in the field, making it an invaluable resource for the teachers, research students and scholar-practitioners in the field of creative writing studies.

Return to Warden's Grove

Return to Warden's Grove PDF Author: Christopher Norment
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587297493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Based on three seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic, Christopher Norment’s exquisitely crafted meditation on science and nature, wildness and civilization, is marked by bottomless prose, reflection on timeless questions, and keen observations of the world and our place in it. In an era increasingly marked by cutting-edge research at the cellular and molecular level, what is the role for scientists of sympathetic observation? What can patient waiting tell us about ourselves and our place in the world? His family at home in the American Midwest, Norment spends months on end living in isolation in the Northwest Territories, studying the ecology of the Harris’s Sparrow. Although the fourteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckhardt wrote, “God is at home, we are in the far country,” Norment argues that an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual “far country” can be found in the lives of animals and arctic wilderness. For Norment, “doing science” can lead to an enriched aesthetic and emotional connection to something beyond the self and a way to develop a sacred sense of place in a world that feels increasingly less welcoming, certain, and familiar.

Darwin's Bards

Darwin's Bards PDF Author: John Holmes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia

Quickening Fields

Quickening Fields PDF Author: Pattiann Rogers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705063
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry A new collection by an award-winning poet who “presents her apprehensions of the natural world with striking accuracy and emotional impact” (Orion Magazine) Denise Levertov has called Pattiann Rogers a “visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.” Quickening Fields gathers fifty-three poems that focus on the wide variety of life forms present on earth and their unceasing zeal to exist, their constant “push against the beyond” and the human experience among these lives. Whether a glassy filament of flying insect, a spiny spider crab, a swath of switch grass, barking short-eared owls, screeching coyotes, or racing rat-tailed sperm, all are testifying to their complete devotion to being. Many of the poems also address celestial phenomena, the vision of the earth immersed in a dynamic cosmic milieu and the effects of this vision on the human spirit. While primarily lyrical and celebratory in tone, these poems acknowledge, as well, the terror, suffering, and unpredictability of the human condition.