Authors: Jennifer Ackerman, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Kerry Neville Bakken
ISBN-13: 9780813922331, ISBN-10: 081392233X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Susan A. C. Rosen, Professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College, is the author of numerous articles on American literature and the environment.
Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Rachel Carson, and Gretel Ehrlich: They hail from different regions, employ widely divergent writing styles, and are not known primarily as nature writers. Yet in Shorewords, Susan A. C. Rosen has compiled an imaginative and beautifully balanced anthology of selections from these and more than forty other important writers connected by their love for the coastline. Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Low Tide," E. Annie Proulx's "Cast Away," Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Naomi," and Ursula Le Guin's "Text" are among the diverse pieces that reveal the writers' common fascination with the people and places at water's edge. Organized thematically, Shorewords reflects women's experiences of living along the coast through a wide range of material, including short fiction, poetry, and excerpts from novels and memoirs. All reveal the rich response to shorelines women writers have expressed and continue to express in poetry and prose.
Includes: Jennifer Ackerman
• Nancy Allen
• Gloria Anzaldúa
• Kerry Neville Bakken
• Dorothy Balano
• Andrea Barrett
• Doris Betts
• Kate Braverman
• Mary Louisa Burtch Brewster
• Mary Parker Buckles
• Rachel L. Carson
• Kate Chopin
• Amy Clampitt
• Lucille Sayles Clifton
• Wanda Coleman
• Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis
• Jan DeBlieu
• Emily Dickinson
• Joan Didion
• Annie Dillard
• Gretel Ehrlich
• Anita Endrezze
• Diane P. Freedman
• Tess Gallagher
• Susan Glaspell
• Mary Hood
• Cynthia Huntington
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Mary Karr
• Susan Kenney
• Carolyn Kizer
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Denise Levertov
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Nancy Lord
• Sandra McPherson
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Marianne Moore
• Ruth Moore
• Sena Jeter Naslund
• Gloria Naylor
• Mary Oliver
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• E. Annie Proulx
• May Sarton
• Elizabeth Spencer
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• May Swenson
• Sara Teasdale
• Celia Thaxter
Preface | ||
Naomi | 7 | |
Mara | 9 | |
Out of the Sea | 12 | |
The Outside | 37 | |
The Women Who Raised Goats | 47 | |
El otro Mexico | 48 | |
Fall, 1855, the settlement called Whatcom | 50 | |
From Among the Isles of Shoals | 59 | |
A White Heron | 65 | |
Memory of Cape Cod | 74 | |
Impression: Fog off the Coast of Dorset | 75 | |
From The Liars' Club | 75 | |
Small Craft Warnings | 92 | |
Vigil | 104 | |
The Marginal World | 123 | |
Channelled Whelk | 128 | |
The Outer Bar | 134 | |
Singled Out | 135 | |
Warning | 135 | |
At the Shore | 136 | |
Santa Rosa | 137 | |
The Edge | 141 | |
Prologue, from Notes from the Shore | 145 | |
Osprey, from Notes from the Shore | 148 | |
The Shore | 160 | |
Intertidal Zone | 165 | |
Edge Effect | 167 | |
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! | 175 | |
I started Early - took my Dog | 175 | |
From The Story of Avis | 176 | |
Sea Longing | 186 | |
Woman on Sand | 186 | |
The Mapmaker's Daughter | 188 | |
First Things First | 189 | |
Ocean Water Absorbs Red, Orange, and Yellow Light | 199 | |
The Littoral Zone | 201 | |
Inland | 215 | |
On the Edge | 216 | |
A Subject of the Waves | 217 | |
Beach Glass | 219 | |
From Mama Day | 221 | |
Cast Away | 223 | |
A Rolling Hitch | 228 | |
Bebe Sellars: May 1968 | 238 | |
Old Christmas | 247 | |
From The Weir | 257 | |
Quiet Days in Malibu | 265 | |
3 a.m. Kitchen: My Father Talking | 275 | |
Boat Ride | 276 | |
Putting Up Boat | 282 | |
Blessing the boats | 293 | |
Crabbing | 293 | |
From The Awakening | 299 | |
On the Dunes | 302 | |
To the Sea | 303 | |
Exiled | 303 | |
Burial | 304 | |
Low-Tide | 305 | |
The Fish | 305 | |
A Grave | 307 | |
Preface, from The Houes by the Sea | 308 | |
Tuesday, October 7th, from The House by the Sea | 312 | |
Texts | 314 | |
Sailing | 316 | |
The Great Blue Heron | 332 | |
From The Salt Line | 334 | |
A Whale of a Different Color - Melville and the Movies: The Great White | ||
Whale and Free Willy | 343 | |
A Season on Maui | 355 | |
On this wondrous sea | 358 | |
Exultation is the going | 359 | |
December 11, 1912. (At home in Herring Gut, known to the better element as Port Clyde.) | 359 | |
Back in the U.S.A. | 365 | |
The Cabin Boy | 370 | |
Notes on Authors | 379 | |
Acknowledgments | 389 |