Overview

This anthology is a collection of conserved lands from across the North American continent. Each of 11 chapters contains poems, photos, and information about actual conserved properties from a land conservation organization. They celebrate the beauty and value of lands of all kinds including forests, islands, prairies, farms/ranches, parks, urban mansions, and waterways. Explore lands you've not yet seen, or re-explore familiar territory through art. Either way, we hope you are inspired.

Full Product Details

9781737574057

Table of Contents

Reviews

Within this anthology you will encounter sword fern, Fendler's waterleaf, myrtlewoods heavy with moss, purple trillium, winds and sunsets, wild things. The voice of the land, and those who act to conserve land, provide a kind of keystone on which all else depends. Here is where poetry comes in-to remind us that in each blade of grass memory abides. As the poet Margaret Gibson says in this book: Outer and inner coalesce and fuse. Within a woodland, a waterway, a human. This is the harmony Aldo Leopold imagined-between the land and us-and Currents reminds us that we exist within circles of connectivity, as does waterleaf, fern, upland sandpiper, fine sandy loam, and mucky peat. Gratitude to these stewards of land, and to those inspired to raise a voice in harmony. ----Scott Chaskey, author of Seedtime, and (forthcoming) Soil and Spirit. As our relationship with Nature atrophies, what is taken from our understanding of ourselves? What's our story now? Writing the Land: Currents is an exploration of our relationship to the world we live in, and more importantly, tells us there's a way forward. We need to open this book and listen. ----Ryan Dennis, PhD; Founder and Director of The Milk House: A Rural Writing Collective, Ireland The Writing the Land series has become one to savor. This volume's poems, with eyes to the land and hearts to the skies, include explorations of the fraught history of land and culture. Step into this collection with everything you've been given. Take it beyond with all that you can. -- Hiram Larew, poet, and founder of Poetry X Hunger

Author Information

Lis McLoughlin, PhD is founder and director of NatureCulture LLC, and the Writing the Land project. She publishes the Writing the Land anthologies and other books, and produces events such as the online Authors and Artists Festival. nature-culture.net writingtheland.org For more than three decades, Susan Cerulean has kayaked, hiked, scalloped, fished and counted birds on and around Dog, the St. Georges and St Vincent islands. She is author of I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir (2020); Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change (2015) which was awarded a Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction by the Florida Book Awards; and Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites (2005), which was named Editor's Choice by Audubon magazine. Martin Bridge carries his family tradition forth as he lives, creates and teaches in Western Massachusetts. His work spans a wide range of media: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Theater Design, Site Specific Installations, and Performance. As an avid Permaculture designer he strives to improve his awareness of how he relates to the natural world and to live in better balance. Through his work he hopes to inspire and cultivate a greater sense of mystery and possibility. thebridgebrothers.com

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available