Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Description

"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." --Cultivating Place

In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild.

Product Details

Price

$24.95 $23.20

Publisher

Timber Press (OR)

Publish Date

June 23, 2020

Pages

288

Dimensions

6.0 X 8.0 X 0.8 inches | 1.0 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781604699272

BISAC Categories:

Women Authors

Women

Essays

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About the Author

Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer, historian, writer, and lecturer living in Exeter, England. She has master's degrees in garden history and creative nonfiction with a particular interest in literary landscapes. Before her expat life, she taught American Literature of Nature and Place in the Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the Garden Writers Association, and the Garden History Society. Her website is kathrynaalto.com.

Reviews

"What a joy to travel these paths alongside Kathryn Aalto and such fierce, trailblazing, and perceptive women." --Sarah L. Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post critic and author of The Art of Grace

"An impassioned and illuminating anthology that serves as an act of recovery and discovery, a personal celebration, and a timely reminder of the wealth and sheer power of women's voices." --Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground

"Kathryn Aalto brilliantly braids engaging personal narrative with accessible literary biography, to take readers on an inspiring pilgrimage." --Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and How to Cuss in Western

"An amazing, rich resource that rises above visions of conquest and domination to reveal the possibility of meeting eye-to-eye with wildness, and of being broken open and changed." --Foreword

The Healing Power of Nature: On Creating a Meaningful Partnership with the Animal, Elemental, and Plant Worlds