{"product_id":"environmental-and-nature-writing-9781472592521","title":"Environmental and Nature Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean Prentiss\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003eFinding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography\/History. He is also co-editor of T\u003ci\u003ehe Far Edges of the Fourth Genre \u003c\/i\u003e(2014).\u003cb\u003e Joe Wilkins\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e among many other periodicals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents an introductory history of nature writing—covering subcategories ranging from pastoral and adventure writing to postcolonial and climate change narratives—and serves as a comprehensive guide to the elements of its craft in essays, stories, and poems. Both veterans and newcomers to environmental and nature writing will find inspiration in the exercises and anthology sections, which include work by Camille T. Dungy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Benjamin Percy, and many others. * Poets \u0026amp; Writers *\u003cbr\u003eThe planet is in a real crisis - and one good effect is that it seems to be producing ever more wonderful writers about nature and the environment, almost as a human produces antibodies to ward off disease. Here you will find introductions to many of them--and an invitation to join their ranks. * Bill McKibben, editor of American Earth: Nature Writing Since Thoreau *\u003cbr\u003eSean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins’ new craft text and anthology, Nature and Environmental Writing, is a writing manual full of provocative prompts and a respectful and informative literary history of the genre we have previously kept in a small box marked “nature writing.” It also includes a discerning multi-genre reader. The book challenges writers to factor into their writing the imprint of place and landscape on the human story. Whether writers adopt this textbook for a classroom setting or embark upon its lessons and inspirations in a self-study, they will surely come away with new and wild ideas about the subtle influences that science, the natural world, and the environmental imagination exert on all of our experiences, memories, and stories. * Debra Marquart, Professor of English at Iowa State University and author of The Horizontal World *\u003cbr\u003eThis is lucid, interesting and highly readable. * Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThe sense of historical development coupled with the sensitivity to the changing social and cultural landscapes makes this book useful to a number of audiences and promises to invite even more nature writers to join those already on the trail … Part II focuses on various writerly concerns such as tone, symbol, point of view, character (both people and place), persona, research, revision, and the like. Prentiss and Wilkins deal with these issues by creating chapters that offer related readings from the anthology, a free-write prompt, an illustrating vignette, a discussion of the issue at hand, and exercises. These are standard writing issues for nature writers, and I find Prentiss and Wilkins’s treatment of them straightforward and refreshing … \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental and Nature Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology \u003c\/i\u003eincludes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and provides a great range of writing from multiple perspectives covering multiple genres. I find the collection useful, as models for writers and as challenges to how we define nature and environmental writing. Prentiss and Wilkins have given us a useful trail to follow … I will use Prentiss and Wilkins’s book the next time I teach nature writing. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 1: The Trailhead Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing   \u003cb\u003eSection 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World Chapter 4: Living Maps Chapter 5: The Writer in Place Chapter 6: People and Place Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below Chapter 8: The Art of Activism Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting Chapter 12: A Trail Guide   \u003cb\u003eSection 3: Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e   Geologies: An Investigation \u003ci\u003eChelsea Biondolillo\u003c\/i\u003e   Pack Rat \u003ci\u003eJohn Daniel\u003c\/i\u003e   Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning \u003ci\u003eCamille T. Dungy\u003c\/i\u003e   Nature Writing by Numbers \u003ci\u003eDavid Gessner\u003c\/i\u003e   Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America \u003ci\u003eJennifer Lunden\u003c\/i\u003e   Burning the Shelter \u003ci\u003eLouis Owens \u003c\/i\u003e   Spring Ends in Bangor, PA \u003ci\u003eSean Prentiss\u003c\/i\u003e   Hell Yeah We Want Windmills  \u003ci\u003eErik Reece\u003c\/i\u003e   The Other Side of Fire \u003ci\u003eLeslie Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e   Trapline: An Ojibwe Man’s Search for Identity on the Canadian Taiga \u003ci\u003eDavid Treuer\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e   Family Reunion \u003ci\u003eBonnie Jo Campbell \u003c\/i\u003e   Border \u003ci\u003eAlyson Hagy\u003c\/i\u003e   Cartography \u003ci\u003eBonnie Nadzam\u003c\/i\u003e   Mule Killers \u003ci\u003eLydia Peelle\u003c\/i\u003e   The Caves of Oregon \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Percy\u003c\/i\u003e   Like Bread the Light \u003ci\u003eJoe Wilkins\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePoetry\u003c\/b\u003e   Creation Myth \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bradfield\u003c\/i\u003e   I Was Popular in Certain Circles  \u003ci\u003eGabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/i\u003e   What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn’t Global Warming \u003ci\u003eTodd Davis\u003c\/i\u003e   Weekly Apocalyptic, or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule \u003ci\u003eChris Dombrowski\u003c\/i\u003e   Resurrection of the Errand Girl  \u003ci\u003eNikky Finney\u003c\/i\u003e   Water Water Water Wind Water  \u003ci\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera\u003c\/i\u003e   Migration \u003ci\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e   Remembering Minidoka \u003ci\u003eW. Todd Kaneko\u003c\/i\u003e   River Keeper \u003ci\u003eLaurie Kutchins\u003c\/i\u003e   Emerging View  \u003ci\u003eAnne Haven McDonnell\u003c\/i\u003e   Coos Bay \u003ci\u003eMichael McGriff\u003c\/i\u003e   Explaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the Extinction \u003ci\u003eJuan Morales\u003c\/i\u003e   Lewis and Clark Disagree \u003ci\u003eAimee Nezhukumatathil\u003c\/i\u003e   The Natural World  \u003ci\u003eG.E. Patterson\u003c\/i\u003e   Stripping \u003ci\u003eSean Prentiss\u003c\/i\u003e   As a Species Flies from Extinction, Consider the River \u003ci\u003eDerek Sheffield\u003c\/i\u003e   Migration of Balling Twine \u003ci\u003eJulia Shipley\u003c\/i\u003e   The Feed \u003ci\u003eM.L. Smoker\u003c\/i\u003e   Theories of Time and Space \u003ci\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/i\u003e   Seven Devils \u003ci\u003eJoe Wilkins\u003c\/i\u003e   Tire Hut: Seaview, Washington \u003ci\u003eMaya Jewell Zeller\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187605463383,"sku":"9781472592521","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/environmental-and-nature-writing-9781472592521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}