Research Catalog

Title

In our nature : stories of wildness / selected and introduced by Donna Seaman.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Seaman, Donna

Description

259 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Fourteen unforgettable short stories provoke, illuminate, and startle as they explore our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us. As we are recognizing the consequences of the destruction of forests and wetlands, the pillaging of the seas, and the toxicity of industry, we are experiencing profound uncertainty about our relationship with the earth. These stellar short stories by writers such as Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Margaret Atwood, E. L. Doctorow, Chris Offutt, and others plumb the mystery?as only fiction can?of nature within us and the world of nature that surrounds us. We are nature, in spite of our machines, our plastics, and our artificial ingredients. Yet what do we make of our own nature? Our own wildness? And how do we explain the paradox of our urge to both exploit and protect wilderness?

Subject

• Nature stories, American
• Human-animal relationships > Fiction
• Wilderness areas > Fiction
• Animals > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Note

• Originally published: New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: The character of nature / by Diane Ackerman -- Introduction: On the edge of wilderness / by Donna Seaman -- Swamp boy / Rick Bass -- Barred owl / Chris Offutt -- Amen / Linda Hogan -- My life as a bat / Margaret Atwood -- Erzulie / Pauline Melville -- The open lot / Barry Lopez -- Everything is about animals / Francine Prose -- Willi / E.L. Doctorow -- Wolf at the door / Percival Everett -- I got a guy once / Tess Gallagher -- Four calling birds, three French hens / Lorrie Moore -- Men on the moon / Simon J. Ortiz -- Weeds / Rick DeMarinis -- The heart of the sky / Kent Meyers.

ISBN

0820324574 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002075990

OCLC

50006648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library