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Home Ground Language for an American Landscape

by Barry Lopez
Home Ground Language for an American Landscape

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ISBN13: 9781595340245
ISBN10: 1595340246
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Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms — phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and exquisitely written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, and Bill McKibben, Home Ground is a striking composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.

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"Tiny essays in the guise of definitions....The book is a way of reclaiming the language that gives definition to landscape from the denatured terms of modern public discourse. It celebrates specificity." New York Times

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"Home Ground is a treasure house of a book, chocked with gems of the American vernacular....But to call this a reference work is to shortchange it — the entries are written by some of our best writers, and the result is an unexpected page turner." Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma

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"For anyone who loves words, the natural world, and the myriad forms of land and water, this book is an essential companion." Andrea Barrett, author of Servants of the Map

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"The authors of Home Ground have made a heroic effort to recover the vocabularies and meanings we need to recognize and care for the lands we love. This is a book to savor like a fine wine." William Cronon, author of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

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"This is a book for anyone who wants to learn more about America and its history, and to develop a better connection to both. Or for anyone who correctly wants to use such fine terms as 'dugout,' 'nubble' and 'boondocks.'" Seattle Times

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Clay , October 05, 2006
This unusual concordance to American writers describing the American landscape is a mine of beautiful writing and an effective source book for expressions and phrases that go beyond the usual lexical list. It would be even more valuable in electronic, searchable format.

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ISBN:
9781595340245
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/01/2006
Publisher:
TRINITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages:
449
Height:
10.25 in.
Width:
7.75 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2006
UPC Code:
2801595340247
Author:
Barry Lopez
Editor:
Debra Gwartney
Editor:
Barry Lopez
Author:
Debra Gwartney
Author:
Debra Gwartney
Author:
Debra 6=gwartney
Author:
Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney
Editor:
Barry; Gwartney, Debra Lopez
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Americanisms

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