Belonging to the land / David Mas Masumoto. Birth witness / Ofelia Zepeda -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Tales from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning / Camille T. Dungy -- Crossing boundaries / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Working in a region of lost names / Fred Arroyo -- Notes on the New World / Faith Adiele -- Invoking the ancestors / Aileen Suzara -- Hope and feathers : a crisis in birder identification / J. Drew Lanham -- Witness. Confronting environmental racism in the twenty-first century / Robert D. Bullard -- 70117 / A.J. Verdelle -- Dark waters / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Mujere de Maiz : women, corn, and free trade in the Americas / Maria Melendez -- Hazardous cargo / Ray Gonzalez -- Silent parrot blues / Al Young -- The art gallery / Elmaz Abinader -- Touching on skin / Kimiko Hahn -- Encounter. The thinking men / Nikky Finney -- Learning the grammar of animacy / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Listening for the ancient tones, watching for sign, tasting for the mountain thyme / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Earthbound : on solid ground / bell hooks -- This weight of small bodies / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Sharing breath : some links between land, plants, and people / Enrique Salmon -- Burning the shelter / Louis Owens -- At the end of Ridge Road : from a nature journal / Joseph Bruchac -- Praise. Reclaiming ourselves, reclaiming America / Francisco X. Alarcon -- A tapestry of browns and greens / Nalini Nadkarni -- Porphyrin rings / Jennifer Oladipo -- Becoming Metis / Melissa Nelson -- In the valley of its saying / Debra Kang Dean -- Tarsenna's defiance garden in which I love to spit / Thylias Moss -- Ke au Lono i Kaho'olawe, ho'i = The era of Lono at Kaho'olawe, returned / Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele -- Belonging to the land / David Mas Masumoto.
Summary:
"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 been widely overlooked by readers of environmental literature. Including work from more than thirty contributors of widely diverse backgrounds, this collection works against the grain of this traditional blind spot by exploring the relationship between culture and place, emphasizing the lasting value of cultural heritage, and revealing how this wealth of perspectives is essential to building a livable future"--P. [4] of cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.