Download or read book A Word With Wilderness Poems Inspired by American Nature written by Gyaneshwari Dave and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the author's self-portrait sketch on the cover, ""A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature? is a collection of soulful nature poems accompanied by her elegant and delightful hand-drawn sketches. The gifted poet's subtle yet innocent, and often spiritual way of looking at nature's wonders makes her poetry a joy for any true nature lover - in America or any other part of the world. NOTE: This paperback edition has BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR featuring the illustrations in classic monochrome style. The preview may show color. Gyaneshwari Dave is a writer/poet, illustrator, nature photographer and the founder of www.pineconedream.com.
Download or read book Against Nature written by Judith McCombs and published by DustBooks. This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Word in the Wilderness written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent.
Download or read book Forest Runes written by George Washington Sears and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Sears tributes the great outdoors with a collection of poems chronicling life among nature in all its rugged glory. A committed outdoorsman, Sears was most at home among the trees and hills of America's wilderness. Each poem in this anthology chronicles a different aspect of life spent camping and living in the depths of nature, with only creatures for company. The author's affinity is plain to behold: he describes watching how a given animal behaves, how the weather unfolds amid the forest, how a camp feels like home, how overarching nature's majesty is. The invigorating aspect of being outdoors is admired by the author; the mountain air, tinged with the scents of trees, was thought to benefit health in the 19th century. Other aspects of the book recount movements of the era; temperence from alcohol, and conflicts with the Native Americans, are alluded to.
Download or read book Poems From The Wilderness written by Jack Mayer and published by Winners of the Proverse Prize. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Runes written by George Washington Sears and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Sears tributes the great outdoors with a collection of poems chronicling life among nature in all its rugged glory. A committed outdoorsman, Sears was most at home among the trees and hills of America's wilderness. Each poem in this anthology chronicles a different aspect of life spent camping and living in the depths of nature, with only creatures for company. The author's affinity is plain to behold: he describes watching how a given animal behaves, how the weather unfolds amid the forest, how a camp feels like home, how overarching nature's majesty is. The invigorating aspect of being outdoors is admired by the author; the mountain air, tinged with the scents of trees, was thought to benefit health in the 19th century. Other aspects of the book recount movements of the era; temperence from alcohol, and conflicts with the Native Americans, are alluded to. George Washington Sears felt a sense of awe and wonder about nature while still a boy: his parent's books featuring Native Americans depicted a vast and beautiful habitats. Growing up to be a great lover of nature, Sears would often camp in the forests between working as a journalist and poet. He was an early proponent of the canoe as a means of exploring the rivers, and would undertake tours using these boats.
Download or read book Forest Runes written by George Sears and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Sears tributes the great outdoors with a collection of poems chronicling life among nature in all its rugged glory. A committed outdoorsman, Sears was most at home among the trees and hills of America's wilderness. Each poem in this anthology chronicles a different aspect of life spent camping and living in the depths of nature, with only creatures for company. The author's affinity is plain to behold: he describes watching how a given animal behaves, how the weather unfolds amid the forest, how a camp feels like home, how overarching nature's majesty is. The invigorating aspect of being outdoors is admired by the author; the mountain air, tinged with the scents of trees, was thought to benefit health in the 19th century. Other aspects of the book recount movements of the era; temperence from alcohol, and conflicts with the Native Americans, are alluded to. George Washington Sears felt a sense of awe and wonder about nature while still a boy: his parent's books featuring Native Americans depicted a vast and beautiful habitats. Growing up to be a great lover of nature, Sears would often camp in the forests between working as a journalist and poet. He was an early proponent of the canoe as a means of exploring the rivers, and would undertake tours using these boats.
Download or read book Can Poetry Save the Earth written by John Felstiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.
Download or read book Invention of the Wilderness written by Bruce Bond and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm—a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for order, exploitation, expansion, or preservation. Although to talk of “inventing” the wilderness seems paradoxical, the book seeks to reclaim the etymological root of “invention” as a “venturing in.” To invent a wilderness is to go inward by way of attentive engagement in the natural world, to affirm and liberate imaginative expression as no mere mirror of nature, but a force of it. At times meditative and melancholic, though also vibrant and full of life, Invention of the Wilderness proposes an embodied and reflective way of being in the world.
Download or read book Earthen Rovings written by D.L. Lang and published by D. Lang. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selections of nature poetry collected from D.L. Lang's full length poetry collections published between 2011 and 2020. This collection is meant to serve as a sampler to those unfamiliar with her work. D.L. Lang is a nature lover who enjoys spending time outside to take walks and absorb the surrounding beauty. Lang is a poet who often finds herself inspired to write in a wilderness atmosphere, and dreaming of spending time in nature while indoors. A handful of environmentalist poems are also included within these pages. Don’t forget to honor your Mother Earth. D.L. Lang is a contemporary American poet and spoken word artist. The author of over a dozen poetry books, Lang has been writing poetry for over 25 years. She has performed her poetry on stage hundreds of times at protest rallies, county fairs, literary festivals, open mics, poetry circles, bookstores, libraries, and live radio broadcasts. From 2017 to 2019 she served as Vallejo, California’s Poet Laureate. Her poems have been awarded with numerous county fair ribbons, transformed into songs, used as liturgy for prayer, and to advocate for peace, justice, and a better world. The scribe of over 1,200 poems from haiku to free verse to masterful rhyme, covering a wide variety of topics, D.L. Lang has poetry that’s sure to delight. Lang dabbles in both gritty realism and surrealistic wordplay, sorrowful elegy and uplifting affirmations. Her poetry is a mixture of topical political commentary, religious devotional meditations, and poetic autobiographical memoir. Her words take you on journeys deep into nature, memory, spirituality, and the whisperings of the heart. She is the author of Tea & Sprockets, Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology, Look Ma! No Hands!, Poet Loiterer, Id Biscuits, Barefoot in the Sanctuary, Armor Against The Dawn, Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays, Resting on My Laurels, The Cafe of Dreams, Midnight Strike, and This Festival of Dreams. D.L. Lang is an internationally published poet. Her poetry is anthologized in numerous titles worldwide.
Download or read book Wilderness written by Anna K. Ivey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness is a collection of poems chronicling a family’s transition from conflict into peace. The structure is free-verse poetry. Written in various points of view, the work uses quotes from The Pilgrim’s Progress for names of poems, epigraphs, and section titles. Wilderness has two major parts. The first section deals with the rising dysfunction before the family gives their wounds to God. Marriage stress, mental illness, an absent father, and troubled childhoods create deep complications in this blended family. The central character is the wife/mother, who attempts to manage herself and her home. The second half is marked by these characters undergoing the messy transition into health and spiritual healing. Delving into the inner workings of an American family, Wilderness seeks to excavate a damaged past for the purpose of embracing restoration.
Download or read book Uncommon Ground written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildfire Words written by Thor Castleburry and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife Words is a captivating collection of poems that brings the natural world to life through vivid language and lyrical expression. Each verse serves as a window into the wild, celebrating the beauty, wonder, and intricate connections that define the animal kingdom and the environments they inhabit. From the deep forests to the open plains, from the smallest insects to the mightiest beasts, these poems capture the essence of wildlife in all its diverse forms.Within these pages, you'll hear the rustle of leaves as a deer steps lightly through the woods, feel the powerful sweep of an eagle's wings, and witness the quiet determination of a tiny ant on its endless journey. The poems explore the delicate balance of ecosystems, the raw instincts that drive survival, and the profound wisdom found in nature's rhythms. They also touch on themes of coexistence, conservation, and the deep connection between humans and the natural world.Wildlife Words is more than just a celebration of nature; it's a call to observe, respect, and protect the wild places and creatures that share our planet. Perfect for nature lovers, wildlife enthusiasts, or anyone who finds inspiration in the untamed beauty of the world, this collection offers a poetic journey through the wilderness. As you turn each page, you'll be transported to landscapes teeming with life, reminded of the delicate harmony that sustains our planet, and inspired to listen closely to the wildlife words that whisper all around us.
Download or read book Wilderness Champion written by Gina Keicher and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After reading Gina Keicher's luminous collection of poems, I found myself thinking about America and about family, and about how those two words, so innocuous, so iconic and full of clear blue skies and yellow cornfields and white farm houses, how if they were pinned to a board and sliced in two, one could see the honeycombs of sadness and suffering and strangeness that would reveal themselves in cross section under close inspection, and I understood the woman in one of Gina's poems, who 'shined a bright light inside the cut to learn about sight, ' suddenly aware of the underlife. Attention to detail, unbridled imagination: these are the things of poetry, and they reside here in abundance at the nexus between the subconscious and the conscious, in the half-sleep, the waking dream, splat in the middle of the unsolved mystery of being alive." - Christopher Kennedy, author of Ennui Prophet// " 'All these colliding frequencies, ' Gina Keicher says in the gorgeous long poem, 'The General, ' that appears at the final section of this remarkable debut. Keicher herself is a radio that pulls in the escaping signals from the sideshows, peepshows, carnivals and sleeping nocturnal brains of America. It's complex and strange and endlessly fascinating. There is a weird connectivity and fearless fundamental seeking that goes on here where 'something always goes off' the family volcano, a pistol, a poem. These explorations are introductions into a body of knowledge which is also a body of mystery. Keicher kisses and wrestles her angels [her angles?] into submission, into a state of animal awareness." - Bruce Smith, author of Devotions// "You are holding more than a book of poems. These are missives from different dimensions, vital instructions to the moment; these are dreams floating in the atmosphere above us, transmuting the ordinary. Gina Keicher'sWilderness Champion lives up to its name and beyond. By reading this book you've already won something: a profound understanding of the human, the animal, and the mystical via a singular, fresh imagination." - -Ashley Farmer, author of Beside Myself
Download or read book A Terrible Beauty written by Jonah Raskin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Shortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called ¿The library a wilderness of books.¿ He also noted that while Americans were ¿clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are accumulating a forest of books in our rear, as wild and unexplored as any of nature¿s primitive wildernesses.¿ In "A Terrible Beauty: the Wilderness of American Literature," Jonah Raskin takes a long close look at the forest of books that poets, novelists and essayists mapped and explored before and after Thoreau. The first work of cultural criticism to look back at writing in the United States from the perspective of the contemporary environmental crisis, Raskin offers insights for students, teachers and lovers of literature as well as for backpackers and hikers who have trekked across untrammeled forests, deserts and mountains. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonah Raskin, Phd, has taught American literature at Sonoma State University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and as a Fulbright professor at the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent in Belgium. The author of fifteen books, he earned his B.A. at Columbia College in New York, his M.A. at Columbia University and his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, Manchester, England. He lives in northern California and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The L.A. Times, The Nation, The Redwood Coast Review and Catamaran.
Download or read book Sanctuary in the Wilderness written by Alan Mintz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe settled in America, and a passionate kernel among them believed that Hebrew provided the vehicle for modernizing the Jewish people while maintaining their connection to Zion. These American Hebraists created schools, journals, newspapers, and, most of all, a high literary culture focused on producing poetry. Sanctuary in the Wilderness is a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry, focusing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American vistas and Jewish fate and hope in midcentury. American Hebrew poets hoped to be read in both Palestine and America, but were disappointed on both scores. Several moved to Israel and connected with the vital literary scene there, but most stayed and persisted in the cause of American Hebraism.
Download or read book Nature Poem written by Tommy Pico and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
