{"product_id":"what-wildness-is-this-women-write-about-the-southwest-paperback","title":"What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Wittig Albert\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow 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 Chávez, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough 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: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe way we live on the land\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOur journeys through the land\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNature in cities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNature at risk\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNature that sustains us\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOur memories of the land\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOur kinship with the animal world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat we leave on the land when we are gone\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Wittig Albert is the founder and past president of the Story Circle Network. She lives near Austin, Texas. Susan Hanson teaches in the English Department at Texas State University-San Marcos. Jan Epton Seale is a poet and fiction writer in McAllen, Texas. Paula Stallings Yost, founder of LifeSketches\/Heirloom Memoirs, is a personal historian and publisher in Yantis, Texas, near Dallas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.06 x 6.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e WILLA Literary Award (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45307887190118,"sku":"9780292716308","price":36.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bVdXeHFFUU4wSnJxSXY1UnV2MFpyUT09.webp?v=1774144227","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/what-wildness-is-this-women-write-about-the-southwest-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}