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The sweet breathing of plants : women writing on the green world / edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson.

Hogan, Linda. (Added Author). Peterson, Brenda, 1950- (Added Author).

Summary:
Celebrating the world of plants, this anthology of prose and poetry features the work of Riogberta Menchú, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Isabel Allende, Susan Orlean, Kathleen Norris, and Alice Walker.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0865475598
  • ISBN: 9780865475595
  • ISBN: 086547625X
  • ISBN: 9780865476257
  • Physical Description: xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : North Point Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Preface / Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson -- [pt. 1]. A passion for plants -- Orchid fever / Susan Orlean -- Smelling like a rose / Sharman Apr Russell -- The language of flowers / Isabel Allende -- Ode to mold / Claudia Lewis -- Mulch / Linda Hasselstrom -- Wedding day / Zora Neale Hurston -- Huckleberries / Annick Smith -- Columbine / Elaine Scarry -- Mint snowball / Naomi Shihab Nye -- [pt. 2]. Keepers of the plants : native women -- Bamboo / Linda Hogan -- My world is out there / Linda Yamane -- Corn mother / Anita Endrezze -- Peyote / Mary Crow Dog -- The woman I love is a planet; the planet I love is a tree / Paula Gunn Allen -- Maize / Rigoberta Menchú -- Alder / Teresa tsimmu Martino -- La limpia / Louise M. Wisechild -- [pt. 3]. Collecting myself -- Fate of the wise women / Jeanne Achterberg -- The grass / Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- Plantswomen / Trish Maharam -- The nature of this flower is to bloom / Alice Walker -- State of grace / Molly Peacock -- [pt. 4]. The science of green -- Earth's green mantle / Rachel Carson -- Barbara McClintock / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne -- Living downstream / Sandra Steingraber -- Radioactive tumbleweeds / Lesa Quale -- My life with weed / Linda Jean Shepherd -- [pt. 5]. The forest for the trees -- Dreaming of trees / dr Kathleen Norris -- For the maples / Laura Bowers Foreman -- Rain forest / Diane Ackerman -- Index, a mountain / Carolyn Kizer -- House of wood / Stephanie Kaza -- Killing our elders / Brenda Peterson -- [pt. 6]. Flora for Fauna -- Living medicine for animals / Donna Kelleher -- Visions of Caliban / Jane Goodall and Dale Peterson -- Miriam Rothschild : through the eyes of a butterfly / Mary Troychak -- The flooded forest / Catherine Caufield -- The twilight zone / Sylvia Earle -- The importance of the whale in the field of iris / Pattiann Rogers.
Subject: Gardening.
Plants, Cultivated.
Gardening > Literary collections.
Plants, Cultivated > Literary collections.
Genre: Literature.

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