Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

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Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.

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Jeffery Renard Allen, New York
Kim Barnes, Idaho
Conger Beasley, Missouri
Franklin Burroughs, Maine
Lan Samantha Chang, Iowa
Michael Collier, Maryland
Elizabeth Cox, Massachusetts
John Daniel, Oregon
Jan DeBlieu, North Carolina
William deBuys, New Mexico
Gretel Ehrlich, California
Charles Frazier, North Carolina
Pamela Frierson, Hawaii
Patricia Hampl, Minnesota
Robert Hass, California
Emily Hiestand, Massachusetts
Linda Hogan, Colorado
Stephen Graham Jones, Texas
John Keeble, Washington
Barbara Kingsolver, Virginia
William Kittredge, Montana
Jon Krakauer, Colorado
Gretchen Legler, Maine
Arturo Longoria, Texas
Bill McKibben, New York
Ellen Meloy, Utah
Robert Morgan, New York
Susan Brind Morrow, New York
Antonya Nelson, Texas
Robert Michael Pyle, Washington
Pattiann Rogers, Colorado
Scott Russell Sanders, Indiana
Eva Saulitis, Alaska
Donna Seaman, Illinois
Carolyn Servid, Alaska
Kim Stafford, Oregon
Mary Swander, Iowa
Arthur Sze, New Mexico
Mike Tidwell, Maryland
Luis Alberto Urrea, Illinois
Luis Verano, Oregon
D. J. Waldie, California
Joy Williams, Florida
Terry Tempest Williams, Utah
Larry Woiwode, North Dakota

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