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  • Zoologies

    On Animals and the Human Spirit

    "Beautifully written essays" on animals, "the real and mythological, the ordinary and the exotic, the wild and the domesticated" ( Publishers Weekly).Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world—both as physical beings and spiritual symbols—and not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stairway to Heaven

    Poems

    Series series Penguin Poets
    A new collection from a poet who “writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatedness—family, place, politics, and wildlife” (W. S. Piero)In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Voice for Earth

    American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter

    A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle," ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Colors of Nature

    Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

    "An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gift of Animals

    Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection

    This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic.Animals have long been a source of inspiration, sustenance, and companionship, and poems about and for animals are among the oldest traditions across human cultures. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower

    Poems

    “A rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative.”****—Ellen Bass, author of In IndigoEssential poems devoted to the power of language to pull us closer to Nature and each other.In her sixth poetry collection, award-winning writer Alison Hawthorne Deming extends her exploration of the meanings of nature into the tensions of our political and ecological moment. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Woven World

    On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress

    Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have defined communities for generations.The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft, Alison Hawthorne Deming resists the erasure of our shared history of handiwork with this appeal for embracing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Frog Mountain Blues

    The Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson—whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O’odham—offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard.When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the Catalinas’ foothills. Today, that development is fully visible, but Charles Bowden’s prescience of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Solastalgia

    An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

    Series series Ecologia
    "One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Science and Other Poems

    Series series Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
    “I greatly admire Alison Deming’s lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning. I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this knowledge to a poetic use; but I am equally taken—I am more taken—by the wisdom that lies behind the knowledge. I am amazed, and delighted, by her ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Science and Other Poems

    Series series Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
    “I greatly admire Alison Deming’s lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning. I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this knowledge to a poetic use; but I am equally taken—I am more taken—by the wisdom that lies behind the knowledge. I am amazed, and delighted, by her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Genius Loci

    Series series Penguin Poets
    From a poet and essayist whose writing about nature has won her comparisons with Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams comes a new collection that offers further evidence of her ability to trace the intersections of the human and nonhuman worlds. The title poem is a lyrical excavation of the city of Prague, where layers of history, culture and nature have accumulated to form “a genius loci”—a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD