Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008 How do
women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American
Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization
dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this
question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original
pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their
personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of
writing-as well as from previously published work by writers
including Joy Harjo, Denise Chavez, Diane Ackerman, Naomi Shihab
Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Anzaldua, Terry Tempest Williams,
and Barbara Kingsolver-the editors of this book have drawn nearly a
hundred pieces that witness both to the ever-changing,
ever-mysterious life of the natural world and to the vivid,
creative, evolving lives of women interacting with it. Through
prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this
anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and
their own inner landscapes as women living on the land-the
congruence of where they are and who they are. The editors have
grouped the writings around eight evocative themes: The way we live
on the land Our journeys through the land Nature in cities Nature
at risk Nature that sustains us Our memories of the land Our
kinship with the animal world What we leave on the land when we are
gone From the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of
California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains
and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives
on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer
the exclusive domain of men, that women bring unique and
transformative perspectives to this genre.
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