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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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)
environmental literature, poem sequence, right whales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American West, Grand Manan, Review of Temporary Homelands, Civilized World, Review of Poetry, New York, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Review of The Edges, Bei Dao, Bloomsbury Review, San Francisco, Poet's Mimeo Cooperative, Seal Cove, Wood Island, Alison Deming, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Republic, Denise Levertov, Kore Press, Publishers Weekly, United States, Baton Rouge, Bay of Fundy, Gary Snyder, Louisiana State University Press New!
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- Temporary Homelands by Alison Hawthorne Deming on 5 pages
- The American West (Our world wallcharts) by Robin May on page 2 (1), page 2 (2), and Back Matter
- Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City by Laure-Anne Bosselaar on page 2, and Back Matter
- Essays and Lectures (The Library of America) by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Back Matter
- Taking Care: Thoughts on Storytelling and Belief (Credo) by William Kittredge in Back Matter
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- 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 by Alison Hawthorne Deming in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Genius Loci (Poets, Penguin) by Alison Deming in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist by John Nichols in Back Matter
- The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by Mary Rose O'Reilley in Back Matter
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