Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
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Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of womenâs writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioning an alternative world in which human beings are not estranged from their planet; and Julia Butterfly Hill on weathering a fierce storm in the redwood tree where she lived for more than two years. Here, too, are poems, essays, stories, and journal entries by Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker, Terry Tempest Williams, Willa Cather, Gretel Erlich, Adrienne Rich, and othersâ"each offering a vivid, eloquent response to the natural world.
This second edition of
Sisters of the Earth is fully revised and updated with a new preface and nearly fifty new pieces, including new contributions by Louise Erdrich, Pam Houston, Zora Neale Hurston, Starhawk, Joy Williams, Kathleen Norris, Rita Dove, and Barbara Kingsolver.Women have been writing, and writing very well, about nature
for hundreds of years, but, as in so many other fields, their
contributions were overlooked and undervalued until recently. Lorraine
Anderson's anthology
Sisters of the Earth is just the
remedy. In it, Anderson gathers writing on nature from a range of
authors, among them the relatively familiar Sally Carrighar, Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings, Ann Zwinger, Rachel Carson, and Ursula Le Guin and
younger contemporaries like Pat Mora, Terry Tempest Williams, Luci
Tapahonso, and Joy Harjo. Anderson showcases essays, fiction, and
poetry in roughly equal measure, and her intelligent notes and
introduction add much to this generous--and long overdue, and most
welcome--collection.
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