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Shorewords : a collection of American women's coastal writings / edited by Susan A.C. Rosen.

PS509.S35 S55 2003

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Cohen, Susan, 1956-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: American literature--Women authors.; American literature.; Seashore--Literary collections.; Seashore.; Coasts--Literary collections.; Coasts.
Genre:: Literary collections.; Literature.
Physical Description:: xv, 392 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Summary:: Shorewords is an imaginative and beautifully balanced anthology of coastal literature -- including short fiction, poetry, and excerpts from novels and memoirs. Stroll the sandy shores, feel the salty mist, watch the billowing grasses with fifty important writers connected by their love for the coastline.
Contents:: Caught in the Ecotone 1; / Harriet Beecher Stowe; Naomi 7; Mara 9; / Rebecca Harding Davis; Out of the Sea 12; / Susan Glaspell; The Outside 37; / Tess Gallagher; The Woman Who Raised Goats 47; / Gloria Anzaldua; El otro Mexico 48; / Annie Dillard; Fall, 1855, the settlement called Whatcom 50; Growing Up Coastal 55; / Celia Thaxter; From Among the Isles of Shoals 59; / Sarah Orne Jewett; A White Heron 65; / Edna St. Vincent Millay; Memory of Cape Cod 74; Impression: Fog off the Coast of Dorset 75; / Mary Karr; From The Liars' Club 75; / Kate Braverman; Small Craft Warnings 92; / Kerry Neville Bakken; Vigil 104; Observers and Naturalists Explore the Marginal World 119; / Rachel Carson; The Marginal World 123; / Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Channelled Whelk 128; / Amy Clampitt; The Outer Bar 134; / Denise Levertov; Singled Out 135; Warning 135; / Mary Oliver; At the Shore 136; / Gretel Ehrlich; Santa Rosa 137; / Cynthia Huntington; The Edge 141; / Jennifer Ackerman; Prologue, from Notes from the Shore 145; Osprey, from Notes from the Shore 148; / Mary Parker Buckles; The Shore 160; Intertidal Zone 165; / Sandra Mcpherson; Edge Effect 167; Love and Desire in the Littoral Zone 171; / Emily Dickinson; Wild Nights; Wild Nights! 175; I started Early; took my Dog 175; / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; From The Story of Avis 176; / Sara Teasdale; Sea Longing 186; / Wanda Coleman; Woman on Sand 186; / Anita Endrezze; The Mapmaker's Daughter 188; / Mary Hood; First Things First 189; / Sandra McPherson; Ocean Water Absorbs Red, Orange, and Yellow Light 199; / Andrea Barrett; The Littoral Zone 201; Choosing the Coast 211; Inland 215; / May Swenson; On the Edge 216; A Subject of the Waves 217; Beach Glass 219; / Gloria Naylor; From Mama Day 221; / E. Annie Proulx; Cast Away 223; A Rolling Hitch 228; / Doris Betts; Bebe Sellars: May 1968 238; / Jan Deblieu; Old Christmas 247; Working along the Shorelines 253; / Ruth Moore; From The Weir 257; / Joan Didion; Quiet Days in Malibu 265; 3 A.M. Kitchen: My Father Talking 275; Boat Ride 276; / Nancy Lord; Putting Up Boat 282; / Lucille Clifton; blessing the boats 293; crabbing 293; On the Edge: Madness, Illness, Seeking, and Healing 295; / Kate Chopin; From The Awakening 299; On the Dunes 302; To the Sea 303; Exiled 303; Burial 304; Low-Tide 305; / Marianne Moore; The Fish 305; A Grave 307; / May Sarton; Preface, from The House by the Sea 308; Tuesday, October 7th, from The House by the Sea 312; / Ursula K. Le Guin; Texts 314; / Susan Kenney; Sailing 316; / Carolyn Kizer; The Great Blue Heron 332; / Elizabeth Spencer; From The Salt Line 334; / Diane P. Freedman; A Whale of a Different Color; Melville and the Movies: The Great White Whale and Free Willy 343; Beyond 351; / Mary Brewster; A Season on Maui 355; On this wondrous sea 358; Exultation is the going 359; / Dorothy Balano; December 11, 1912. (At home in Herring Gut, known to the better element as Port Clyde.) 359; / Nancy Allen; Back in the U.S.A. 365; / Sena Jeter Naslund; The Cabin Boy 370.
ISBN:: 081392233X; 0813922348
OCLC:: 52070620

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