Environmental and Nature Writing

Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers'' Guide and Anthology covers such topics as: The history of writing about the environment Image, description and metaphor Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction Researching, revising and publishing Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.>

The sense of historical development coupled with the sensitivity to the changing social and cultural landscapes makes this book useful to a number of audiences and promises to invite even more nature writers to join those already on the trail Part II focuses on various writerly concerns such as tone, symbol, point of view, character (both people and place), persona, research, revision, and the like. Prentiss and Wilkins deal with these issues by creating chapters that offer related readings from the anthology, a free-write prompt, an illustrating vignette, a discussion of the issue at hand, and exercises. These are standard writing issues for nature writers, and I find Prentiss and Wilkins's treatment of them straightforward and refreshing Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology includes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and provides a great range of writing from multiple perspectives covering multiple genres. I find the collection useful, as models for writers and as challenges to how we define nature and environmental writing. Prentiss and Wilkins have given us a useful trail to follow I will use Prentiss and Wilkins's book the next time I teach nature writing.

Préface
A practical guide to the art and craft of nature writing, covering non-fiction, fiction, poetry and polemical writing.

Auteur
Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014). Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry (2013) won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.

Résumé
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology covers such topics as: · The history of writing about the environment · Image, description and metaphor · Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction · Researching, revising and publishing · Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.

Contenu
Section 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing Chapter 1: The Trailhead Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing Section 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World Chapter 4: Living Maps Chapter 5: The Writer in Place Chapter 6: People and Place Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below Chapter 8: The Art of Activism Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting Chapter 12: A Trail Guide Section 3: Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology Creative Nonfiction Geologies: An Investigation Chelsea Biondolillo Pack Rat John Daniel Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning Camille T. Dungy Nature Writing by Numbers David Gessner Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America Jennifer Lunden Burning the Shelter Louis Owens Spring Ends in Bangor, PA Sean Prentiss Hell Yeah We Want Windmills Erik Reece The Other Side of Fire Leslie Ryan Trapline: An Ojibwe Man's Search for Identity on the Canadian Taiga David Treuer Fiction Family Reunion Bonnie Jo Campbell Border Alyson Hagy Cartography Bonnie Nadzam Mule Killers Lydia Peelle The Caves of Oregon Benjamin Percy Like Bread the Light Joe Wilkins Poetry Creation Myth Elizabeth Bradfield I Was Popular in Certain Circles Gabrielle Calvocoressi What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn't Global Warming Todd Davis Weekly Apocalyptic, or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule Chris Dombrowski Resurrection of the Errand Girl Nikky Finney Water Water Water Wind Water Juan Felipe Herrera Migration Major Jackson Remembering Minidoka W. Todd Kaneko River Keeper Laurie Kutchins Emerging View Anne Haven McDonnell Coos Bay Michael McGriff Explaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the Extinction Juan Morales Lewis and Clark Disagree Aimee Nezhukumatathil The Natural World G.E. Patterson Stripping Sean Prentiss As a Species Flies from Extinction, Consider the River Derek Sheffield Migration of Balling Twine Julia Shipley The Feed M.L. Smoker Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey Seven Devils Joe Wilkins Tire Hut: Seaview, Washington Maya Jewell Zeller