Descended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic - on Grand Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy. Moving on to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and then to Tucson, Arizona, and Paomoho, Hawaii, Deming describes places that are dear to her because their ways are still shaped by terms nature has set, though less and less so. With vivid ideas and passion, Deming writes about the importance of nature writing for these peripatetic times. Because people's lives are materially less connected to the natural world, they are also spiritually less connected. Through the arts - through the story of the captain whose boat honors the Kwakiutl "Wild Woman of the Woods" or the fisherman who sacrifices his catch to save two whales - people fall again "into harmony with place and each other"; they write the sacred into the real.
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Another summer is warming the waters of the Bay of Fundy, with its rips and eddies, its extreme tides, its creatures of sea and air returning from global voyages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Grand Manan, Bei Dao, Temporary Homelands, Seal Cove, Wood Island, Alison Deming, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Denise Levertov, United States, Bay of Fundy, Gary Snyder, Myron Stout, New York City, North Atlantic, Stanley Kunitz New!
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Grand Manan, Bei Dao, Temporary Homelands, Seal Cove, Wood Island, Alison Deming, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Denise Levertov, United States, Bay of Fundy, Gary Snyder, Myron Stout, New York City, North Atlantic, Stanley Kunitz New!
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- Temporary Homelands by Alison Hawthorne Deming on 5 pages
- Poetry of the American West by Alison H. Deming on page 111, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The American West (Our world wallcharts) by Robin May in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City by Laure-Anne Bosselaar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writing the Sacred into the Real (Credo) by Alison Hawthorne Deming in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Genius Loci (Poets, Penguin) by Alison Deming in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (The World As Home) by Gretchen Legler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writing the Sacred into the Real (Credo) by Alison Hawthorne Deming in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World (The World As Home) by Kathleen Dean Moore in Back Matter
- Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (The World As Home) by Janisse Ray in Back Matter
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