Home ground : language for an American landscape

Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020 (Added Author).

Summary: The author asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms; phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, and Bill McKibben, this text is a composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.

Item details

ISBN: 1595340246
ISBN: 9781595340245
ISBN: 9781595340573
ISBN: 1595340572
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 449 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher: San Antonio : Trinity University Press, ©2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Jeffrey Renard Allen -- Kim Barnes -- Conger Beasley, Jr. -- Franklin Burroughs -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Michael Collier -- Elizabeth Cox -- John Daniel -- Jan DeBlieu -- William DeBuys -- Gretel Ehrlich --Charles Frazier -- Pamela Frierson -- Patricia Hampl -- Robert Hass -- Emily Hiestand -- Linda Hogan -- Stephen Graham Jones -- John Keeble -- Barbara Kingsolver -- William Kittredge -- Jon Krakauer -- Gretchen Legler -- Arturo Longoria -- Bill McKibben -- Ellen Meloy -- Robert Morgan -- Susan Brind Morrow -- Antonya Nelson -- Robert Michael Pyle -- Pattiann Rogers -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Eva Saulitis -- donna Seaman -- Carolyn Servis -- Kim Stafford -- Mary Swander -- Arthur Sze -- Mike Tidwell -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Luis Verano -- D.J. Waldie -- Joy Williams -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Larry Woiwode.

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