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Language for an American Landscape
Trinity University Press
October 2006
On Sale: September 28, 2006
480 pages
ISBN: 1595340246
EAN: 9781595340245
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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