The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie / edited by Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor ; Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, photo editors.
2008
PS571.M9 W54 2008
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Title
The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie / edited by Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor ; Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, photo editors.
ISBN
9780803217515 (cloth : alk. paper)
080321751X (cloth : alk. paper)
080321751X (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Description
200 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Exhibited
2009 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS571.M9 W54 2008
Summary
"It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction narratives of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. There are works by Native American prairie dwellers such as M. L.
Smoker and James Welch and the photographic interpretations of Lee Friedlander, Lois Conner, and Geoffrey James. Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, these works eloquently attest to the prairie's abundance in all its human and natural variety, offering pictures as wide open and rich as the land they depict."--BOOK JACKET.
Smoker and James Welch and the photographic interpretations of Lee Friedlander, Lois Conner, and Geoffrey James. Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, these works eloquently attest to the prairie's abundance in all its human and natural variety, offering pictures as wide open and rich as the land they depict."--BOOK JACKET.
Review
"It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction narratives of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. There are works by Native American prairie dwellers such as M. L.
Note
Smoker and James Welch and the photographic interpretations of Lee Friedlander, Lois Conner, and Geoffrey James. Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, these works eloquently attest to the prairie's abundance in all its human and natural variety, offering pictures as wide open and rich as the land they depict."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Part one: Home on the range: Becoming / Mary Clearman Blew
Evolution / Judy Blunt
Excerpts from The death of Jim Loney / James Welch
No bastion / James Galvin
A foal / Thomas McGuane
Grandfather poem. Letter to Richard Hugo. Birthright. Crosscurrent / M.L. Smoker
- To a meadowlark / Jim Harrison
Portfolio one / Lee Friedlander
Part two: Hunting and gathering: The bear in the road / Barry Lopez
Bird hunter / Rick Bass
Four excerpts from the novella: What the prairie has to say about fly fishing / David James Duncan
Excerpt from The willow field. Far point / William Kittredge
A summer journal / Gretel Ehrlich
Portfolio two / Lois Conner
Part three: Travels across the plains: Don't fence me in / Jim Harrison
Excerpt from Crossing the plains with Bruno / Annick Smith
Empire / Richard Ford
Portfolio three / Geoffrey James
Part four: Natural history: An entire heaven and an entire earth / Dan Flores
Excerpt from: Plains, prairies, and the shining mountains / Peter Matthiessen
Instructions from a misanthrope's paradise / Richard Manning
Driving Montana. Distances. High grass prairie. Bear paw / Richard Hugo
Source acknowledgments
Contributors.
Evolution / Judy Blunt
Excerpts from The death of Jim Loney / James Welch
No bastion / James Galvin
A foal / Thomas McGuane
Grandfather poem. Letter to Richard Hugo. Birthright. Crosscurrent / M.L. Smoker
- To a meadowlark / Jim Harrison
Portfolio one / Lee Friedlander
Part two: Hunting and gathering: The bear in the road / Barry Lopez
Bird hunter / Rick Bass
Four excerpts from the novella: What the prairie has to say about fly fishing / David James Duncan
Excerpt from The willow field. Far point / William Kittredge
A summer journal / Gretel Ehrlich
Portfolio two / Lois Conner
Part three: Travels across the plains: Don't fence me in / Jim Harrison
Excerpt from Crossing the plains with Bruno / Annick Smith
Empire / Richard Ford
Portfolio three / Geoffrey James
Part four: Natural history: An entire heaven and an entire earth / Dan Flores
Excerpt from: Plains, prairies, and the shining mountains / Peter Matthiessen
Instructions from a misanthrope's paradise / Richard Manning
Driving Montana. Distances. High grass prairie. Bear paw / Richard Hugo
Source acknowledgments
Contributors.
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