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From: GWoelfle at aol.com <GWoelfle>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:03:31 EDT
Many of you may be familiar with them, but I'd like to mention Milkweed Editions' series of anthologies called Stories From Where We Live, edited by Sara St. Antoine, as ingenious examples of creative nonfiction. The series divides North America into twelve bioregions, and each anthology focuses on one bioregion with stories, memoirs, poems, and essays that relate to the landscape, flora, fauna, etc. In addition St. Antoine has included a wealth of back matter about the different regions (N. Atlantic Coast, Prairies, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, etc.) She has researched the dominant plants and animals, elements of the landscape, as well as public parks and preserves where classes and families can experience the environment themselves. Each volume includes a wide variety of "creative nonfiction" (and fiction,) so readers can see how the same element (the environment) can be expressed through different genres. These books can also be used across several discipliines. As an added perk, they give authors like me the privilege of appearing alongside Thoreau and Gary Snyder!
Gretchen Woelfle Children's Author
Received on Sun 28 Apr 2002 09:03:31 PM CDT
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:03:31 EDT
Many of you may be familiar with them, but I'd like to mention Milkweed Editions' series of anthologies called Stories From Where We Live, edited by Sara St. Antoine, as ingenious examples of creative nonfiction. The series divides North America into twelve bioregions, and each anthology focuses on one bioregion with stories, memoirs, poems, and essays that relate to the landscape, flora, fauna, etc. In addition St. Antoine has included a wealth of back matter about the different regions (N. Atlantic Coast, Prairies, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, etc.) She has researched the dominant plants and animals, elements of the landscape, as well as public parks and preserves where classes and families can experience the environment themselves. Each volume includes a wide variety of "creative nonfiction" (and fiction,) so readers can see how the same element (the environment) can be expressed through different genres. These books can also be used across several discipliines. As an added perk, they give authors like me the privilege of appearing alongside Thoreau and Gary Snyder!
Gretchen Woelfle Children's Author
Received on Sun 28 Apr 2002 09:03:31 PM CDT
