Home Ground (eBook)

Language for an American Landscape

Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney (Herausgeber)

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2011 | First Trade Paper Edition
480 Seiten
Trinity University Press (Verlag)
978-1-59534-088-7 (ISBN)

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Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly OHalloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.Contributors include: Jeffery 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 Servid, Kim Stafford, Mary Swander, Arthur Sze, Mike Tidwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Luis Verano, D. J. Waldie, Joy Williams, Terry Tempest Williams, and Larry Woiwode.

Autor

Barry Lopez is the author of Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men, Resistance, Light Action in the Caribbean, and eleven other works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground and About This Life. He contributes regularly to Granta, the Georgia Review, Orion, Outside, the Paris Review, Manoa, and other publications in the United States and abroad. In addition to the National Book Award, he is the recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations. He lives in western Oregon.Debra Gwartney is the author of the memoir Live Through This, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2009. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University and lives in western Oregon.Molly O'Halloran is an illustrator and cartographer whose work has appeared in volumes of fiction, travel writing, essays, and archaeological editions. She has lived and worked in Chicago, the Upper Sonoran Desert, the northern Sierra Nevada, and the Great Basin and now calls Austin, Texas, home.Writers below:Jeffery Renard Allen, New YorkKim Barnes, IdahoConger Beasley, MissouriFranklin Burroughs, MaineLan Samantha Chang, IowaMichael Collier, MarylandElizabeth Cox, MassachusettsJohn Daniel, OregonJan DeBlieu, North CarolinaWilliam deBuys, New MexicoGretel Ehrlich, CaliforniaCharles Frazier, North CarolinaPamela Frierson, HawaiiPatricia Hampl, MinnesotaRobert Hass, CaliforniaEmily Hiestand, MassachusettsLinda Hogan, ColoradoStephen Graham Jones, TexasJohn Keeble, WashingtonBarbara Kingsolver, VirginiaWilliam Kittredge, MontanaJon Krakauer, ColoradoGretchen Legler, MaineArturo Longoria, TexasBill McKibben, New YorkEllen Meloy, UtahRobert Morgan, New YorkSusan Brind Morrow, New YorkAntonya Nelson, TexasRobert Michael Pyle, WashingtonPattiann Rogers, ColoradoScott Russell Sanders, IndianaEva Saulitis, AlaskaDonna Seaman, IllinoisCarolyn Servid, AlaskaKim Stafford, OregonMary Swander, IowaArthur Sze, New MexicoMike Tidwell, MarylandLuis Alberto Urrea, IllinoisLuis Verano, OregonD. J. Waldie, CaliforniaJoy Williams, FloridaTerry Tempest Williams, UtahLarry Woiwode, North Dakota

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2011
• Illustrationen: Molly O'Halloran
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Sprach- und Wörterbuch / Deutsch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-59534-088-2 / 1595340882
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59534-088-7 / 9781595340887