Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
ISBN-10
1604699272
ISBN-13
9781604699272
Category
Nature
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2020-05-12
Publisher
Timber Press
Author
Kathryn Aalto

Description

“An exciting, expert, and invaluable group portrait of seminal women writers enriching a genre crucial to our future.” —Booklist In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Featured writers include: Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Gene Stratton-Porter, Mary Austin, and Vita Sackville-West Nan Shepherd, Rachel Carson, Mary Oliver, Carolyn Merchant, and Annie Dillard Gretel Ehrlich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Diane Ackerman, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Lauret Savoy Rebecca Solnit, Kathleen Jamie, Carolyn Finney, Helen Macdonald, and Saci Lloyd Andrea Wulf, Camille T. Dungy, Elena Passarello, Amy Liptrot, and Elizabeth Rush Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild.

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