Bibliograph

Home ground, language for an American landscape, Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing editor

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Label

Home ground, language for an American landscape, Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Home ground

Nature of contents

encyclopediasbibliography

Oclc number

70167626

Responsibility statement

Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing editor

Sub title

language for an American landscape

Summary

Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe Americas 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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