Fresh Water

by Swan, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780870137891
• ISBN10: 0870137891
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakesis a collection of nonfiction works by women writers. These works focus on the Midwest: living with the five interconnected freshwater seas that we know as the Great Lakes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
HOMES
Judith Minty, HOMES: Living with Lake Michigan	5	(6)
Linda Nemec Foster, Lake Erie as the Color of Hazel Eyes	11	(2)
Sue William Silverman, Freshwater	13	(3)
Sharon Dilworth, Shiver Me Timbers	16	(6)
Linda Loomis, Lake Effect	22	(4)
Beth Ann Fennelly, Finding My Way Home	26	(8)
Gayle Boss, Dunetop Dying	34	(5)
Anne-Marie Oomen, Water Birds	39	(1)
Susan Power, Chicago Waters	40	(9)
TROUBLE
Laura Kasischke, The Gray Lady of Lake Huron	49	(10)
Elizabeth A. Trembley, Against the Law	59	(7)
Claudia Skutar, Getting to Water	66	(2)
Heather Sellers, Lake Talk	68	(7)
Jacqueline Kolosov, Water Lessons	75	(8)
Leigh Allison Wilson, Elemental Fine	83	(10)
GIFTS
Annick Smith, The Importance of Dunes	93	(11)
Mary Blocksma, Aboard	104	(6)
Judith Arcana, Walking the Lake's Edge in Winter	110	(3)
Leslie Stainton, Getting to the Point	113	(6)
Anna Mills, Leap	119	(3)
Lisa Lenzo, Bodies of Water	122	(4)
Loraine Anderson, The Salmon	126	(2)
Diane Wakoski, Surfin' USA	128	(5)
Gail Louise Siegel, Hunting the Moon	133	(4)
GHOSTS
Gail Griffin, Manitou Passage	137	(7)
Judith Strasser, In the Apostle Islands	144	(2)
Rachel Azima, Ripples of Azure and Grey, An Excerpt	146	(4)
Susan Laidlaw, The Souls of Trees	150	(6)
Kathleen Stocking, Storm Light on Bois Blanc Island	156	(18)
Rasma Haidri, A Mother Reaches Satori on the Tenth Anniversary of Her Son's Drowning in Lake Michigan	174	(2)
Rachael Perry, Lake Huron's Tide	176	(7)
UPLAKE AND DOWN
Alison Swan, The Kettle	183	(13)
Donna Seaman, Reflections from a Concrete Shore	196	(10)
Stephanie Mills, The Least Thing	206	(7)
Aleta Karstad, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Boats: Excerpts from a Naturalist's Lake Huron journals	213	(6)
Mary Blocksma, Hunting and Fishing	219	(6)
Janet Kauffman, Down the Drain	225	(7)
Mary Blocksma, Littoral Drift	232	(3)
Jane Urquhart, The Forest Pasture	235	(2)
Notes on the Contributors	237	(10)
Acknowledgments	247