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(3.94) | None | A bumper crop of the best writing by women on women and plants Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired. This burgeoning collection amply addresses that lack, with more than three dozen selections of nonfiction and poetry. As in Intimate Nature, their previous anthology on women and animals (edited with Deena Metzger), Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson illuminate their subject from a range of perspectives. Here are curranderas and craftswomen whose legacy of plant wisdom safeguards our connection to the green world; botanists and geneticists; and visionaries like Rachel Carson, who show us the world--and our power to protect or destroy it--in a blade of grass. Here are Zora Neale Hurston on voodoo herbs, Sharman Apt Russell on the perfume of plants, Annick Smith on huckleberries, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades' "river of grass," Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, Susan Orleans on "Orchid Fever," Diane Ackerman on the rain forest, and Kathleen Norris on "Dreaming of Trees." Here is an eloquent "ode to mold," a paean to mulch, an elegy for elders. Here is a book that celebrates an ancient and ongoing relationship in a new and appealing way.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (1)▾Book descriptions A bumper crop of the best writing by women on women and plants Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired. This burgeoning collection amply addresses that lack, with more than three dozen selections of nonfiction and poetry. As in Intimate Nature, their previous anthology on women and animals (edited with Deena Metzger), Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson illuminate their subject from a range of perspectives. Here are curranderas and craftswomen whose legacy of plant wisdom safeguards our connection to the green world; botanists and geneticists; and visionaries like Rachel Carson, who show us the world--and our power to protect or destroy it--in a blade of grass. Here are Zora Neale Hurston on voodoo herbs, Sharman Apt Russell on the perfume of plants, Annick Smith on huckleberries, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades' "river of grass," Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, Susan Orleans on "Orchid Fever," Diane Ackerman on the rain forest, and Kathleen Norris on "Dreaming of Trees." Here is an eloquent "ode to mold," a paean to mulch, an elegy for elders. Here is a book that celebrates an ancient and ongoing relationship in a new and appealing way. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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- Preface / Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson
- Passion for Plants
- Orchid Fever / Susan Orlean
- Smelling Like a Rose / Sharman Apt Russell
- 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
- Keepers of the Plants: Native Women
- Bamboo / Linda Hogan
- My World Is Out There / Linda Yamane
- Corn Mother / Anita Endrezze
- Peyote / Mary Crow Dog
- Woman I Love Is a Planet; The Planet I Love Is a Tree / Paula Gunn Allen
- Maize / Rigoberta Menchu
- Alder / Teresa Tsimmu Martino
- La Limpia / Louise M. Wisechild
- Collecting Myself
- Fate of the Wise Women / Jeanne Achterberg
- Grass / Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Plantswomen / Trish Maharam
- Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Alice Walker
- State of Grace / Molly Peacock
- 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
- Forest for the Trees
- Dreaming of Trees / 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
- 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
- Flooded Forest / Catherine Caufield
- Twilight Zone / Sylvia Earle
- Importance of the Whale in the Field of Iris / Pattiann Rogers
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