This Impermanent Earth Environmental Writing from the Georgia Review |
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Editor:
| Carlson, Douglas Patel, Soham |
Contribution by:
| Paola, Suzanne Bump, Jerome F. Cerulean, Susan Deming, Alison Dodd, Elizabeth Dungy, Camille T. Erdrich, Louise Finch, Robert Gessner, David Gutiérrez, Raquel Hiestand, Emily Ho, J. D. Hurd, Barbara Iijima, Brenda Kilgo, James Lea, Sydney Lopez, Barry Menard, Andrew Molesky, Jason Nabhan, Gary P. Neely, Nicholas Nezhukumatathil, Aimee Pancake, Ann Patten, Robin Perez, Craig Santos Reid, Catherine Riddle, Julie A. Sanders, Scott Russell Saner, Reg Savoy, Lauret Shand, Dawne Smith, Sean P. Williams, Tyrone |
Series title: | Georgia Review Books Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-6949-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2021 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $41.95 |
Book Description:
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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States. The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what...
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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.
The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms, to a more inclusive expansion that considers all human surroundings as material for environmental inquiry. Likewise, the approaches range from formal essays to prose works that reflect the movement toward innovation and experimentation. The collection builds as it progresses; later essays grow from earlier ones.
This Impermanent Earth is more than a historical survey of a literary form, however. The Georgia Review's talented writers and its longtime commitment to the art of editorial practice have produced a collection that is, as one reviewer put it, "incredibly moving, varied, and inspiring." It is a book that will be as at home in the reading room as in the classroom.