{"product_id":"what-wildness-is-this-9780292716308","title":"What Wildness Is This","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this anthology e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhat Wildness Is This\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting tribute to the rugged complexity of the Southwest from the pens of a diverse group of women writers.\" -- Daniel A. Olivas * El Paso Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Kathleen Dean Moore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditor's Note by Susan Wittig Albert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Land Full of Stories \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaura Girardeau, Easter, Picacho Peak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCindy Bellinger, This Land on My Face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGloria Vando, \u003ci\u003eHE 2-104\u003c\/i\u003e: A True Planetary Nebula in the Making\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinda Hogan, Dwellings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoanne Smith, Seasons of a Hermit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan Seale, Palapa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuci Tapahonso, A Song for the Direction of North\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuci Tapahonso, Tsaile April Nights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudith Ann Isaacs, The Land's Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDonna Marie Miller, Mexican Sunflowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnn Woodin, Spring in the Desert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnn Zwinger, First Snowfall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeographies: Journey Notes \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSandra Lynn, Geographies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusan Hanson, The Act of Attention\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudith Strasser, Contemplating Quantum Mechanics One Morning at the Rio Grande Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudith Strasser, Yom Kippur Fast in Taos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusan Zwinger, Coming of Age in the Grand Canyon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinda Elizabeth Peterson, Into the Escalante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatricia Wellingham-Jones, On the Lip of the Rio Grande Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinda Joy Myers, Songs of the Plains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary E. Young, View from a Hot Air Balloon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiza Porter, She Could\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusan J. Tweit, Riding the River Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDenise Chávez, Four Meditations on the Colorado River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLianne Elizabeth Mercer, Sunrise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiane Ackerman, Working on the Tequesquite\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePat Ellis Taylor, Indian Hot Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaura Girardeau, Natural Bridges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Mairs, Writing West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Sojourner, Closing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHome Address: The Nature of Urban Life \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye, Home Address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudith E. Bowen, Mowing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSandra S. Smith, \u003ci\u003eMadrugadora\u003c\/i\u003e\/Early Riser\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSueEllen Campbell, The World Is a Nest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnie Spittler, One Scarlet Penstemon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePat Mora, \u003ci\u003eVoces del Jardín\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLisa Shirah-Hiers, Spinning Water into Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSybil Estess, Sunset on the Bayou\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko, The People and the Land ARE Inseparable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanice Emily Bowers, A Full Life in a Small Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan Jarboe Russell, Into the Woods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarth Is an Island: Nature at Risk \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCeiridwen Terrill, Islands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMargo Tamez, My Mother Returns to Calaboz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Ellis Taylor, Condor Country\/New Year's Eve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJulia Gibson, Coyote Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarol Coffee Reposa, In Parida Cave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHallie Crawford Stillwell, Drought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Linnon, Surviving: What the Desert Teaches Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGloria Anzaldúa, El Retorno\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatricia Wellingham-Jones, Sacrifice to Progress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eP. J. Pierce, The Pond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sustaining Land \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeresa Jordan, Sustenance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoan Shaddox Isom, Gathering at the River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMargo Tamez, The Collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSandra Ramos O'Briant, Chile Tales: The Green Addiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSandra Lynn, Poem in Which I Give You a Canyon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatricia Nordyke Pando, Dumplings Come to Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Wish List\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWendy Rose, Lost Copper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEllen Meloy, Think Not of a Tectonic Plate but of a Sumptuous Feast\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Key Is in Remembering: Growing Up on the Land \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaula Gunn Allen, The Trick Is Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavi Walders, Jewish Oil Brat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavi Walders, Big Spring, Fifty Years After\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanie Fried, Okarche, 1961\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Bryan Stafford, Blowout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebecca Balcárcel, Crepe Myrtles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJackie Woolley, Belonging Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko, \"Not You,\" He Said\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoyce Sequichie Hifler, The Hills of Summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaula Stallings Yost, Mercury Risin'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEagle Inside Us \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoy Harjo, Eagle Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathleen Dean Moore, Alamo Canyon Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMargo Tamez, On the Wing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMargo Tamez, Hummingbirds Compete for the Tobacco Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarie Unini, The Raven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoy Harjo, Fishing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenelope Moffet, Leavening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerry Tempest Williams, Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePattiann Rogers, A Passing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEllen Meloy, My Animal Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenelope Moffet, Presence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKelly Tighe, Snake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarol Fox, Working Cattle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePattiann Rogers, Knot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Owen Nelson, Coyote Love Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSybil Estess, Mastodon Teeth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlison Hawthorne Deming, Monarchs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlison Hawthorne Deming, Sleep, Monarchs, rising and falling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat We Leave Behind \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoy Kennedy, What We Leave Behind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusan Cummins Miller, The Bone-Man's Apprentice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathryn Wilder, Stones and Jawbones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeth Paulson, Ashes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLisa Swanstrom, Land of the Gaping Mouths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLianne Elizabeth Mercer, Lament at Dusk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErica Olsen, Trail Guide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeborah K. Wilson, Light on the Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharman Apt Russell, When the Land Was Young\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarbara Kingsolver, Not Long Ago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLianne Elizabeth Mercer, How to Climb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Story Circle Network\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePermissions Credits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400851693911,"sku":"9780292716308","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292716308.jpg?v=1730471744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-wildness-is-this-9780292716308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}