A wide-ranging consideration of water's plenitude and paucity-and
of our relationship to its many forms Water is quotidian,
ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this
element, the authors of Water's Edge reflect on our natural
environment: its forms, textures, and stewardship. Born from a
colloquium organized by the editors at the Institute at Brown for
Environment and Society, the anthology features a diverse group of
writers and artists from half a dozen countries, from different
fields of scholarship and practice: artists, biologists,
geologists, poets, ecocritics, actors, and anthropologists. The
contributors explore and celebrate water while reflecting on its
disturbances and pollution, and their texts and art play with the
boundaries by which we differentiate literary forms. In the
creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art collected here, water
moves from backdrop to subject. Ashley Dawson examines the effects
of industrial farming on the health of local ecosystems and
economies. Painter Kulvinder Kaur Dhew captures water's brilliance
and multifaceted reflections through a series of charcoal pieces
that interlace the collection. Poet Arthur Sze describes the
responsibility involved in the careful management of irrigation
ditches in New Mexico. Rather than concentrating their thoughts
into a singular, overwhelming argument, the authors circulate
moments of apprehension, intimation, and felt experience. They are
like tributaries, each carrying, in a distinctive style, exigent
and often intimate reports concerning a substance upon which all
living organisms depend. Contributions by Coral Bracho, Akiko
Busch, Ashley Dawson, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Brenda Hillman, Maya
Khosla, Will McGrath, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Zoe Nyssa, Ailsa Piper,
Elizabeth Rush, Cole Swensen, Arthur Sze, Wendy Woodson, Atul
Bhalla, Samuel Gregoire and Colin Channer.
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