This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic.
Animals have long been a source of inspiration, sustenance, and companionship...
Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observation and clear-eyed analysis that characterize scientific inquiry as well as a poet's eye for the telling moment. Science and Other Poems establishes astonishing parallels between the mute, inexorable...
Read More about Science and Other Poems (Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets)Winner of the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
The Deep Blue of Neptune is a striking, meditative collection of poems by Terry Belew, which reminds readers of the necessity of empathy in the midst of uncertain and unsettling times. Set against a rural backdrop, Belew's poems reside in the...
Read More about The Deep Blue of Neptune (Wick First Book)From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories--stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. For centuries, this richness has...
Read More about The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural WorldWith vivid ideas and passion, Deming writes about the importance of nature writing for these peripatetic times.
Descended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic -- on Grand Manan...
Read More about Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Credo)Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have defined communities for generations.
The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft, Alison...
"A rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative."--Ellen Bass, author of In Indigo
Essential poems devoted to the power of language to pull us closer to Nature and each other.
In her sixth poetry collection, award-winning writer Alison Hawthorne Deming extends her...
Read More about Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower: PoemsThe Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson—whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O’odham—offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard.
When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the...
Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world--both as physical beings and spiritual symbols--and not returning.
In this collection of linked essays...
Read More about Zoologies: On Animals and the Human SpiritDeath Valley is the lowest, driest, and hottest area in North America. Located about 150 miles (241 kilometers) west of Las Vegas near the border of California and Nevada, it straddles an area of about 3,000 square miles (770 square kilometers). A land of extremes and contrasts, it includes...
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