The Land's Wild Music Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin

by Tredinnick, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781595340177
• ISBN10: 1595340173
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-10
• Publisher: Trinity University Press

Summary

At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place — Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin — author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature into words. Each author is profiled in a separate chapter written in rich, engaging prose that reads like the best journalism, and Tredinnick concludes with his own thoughts on what it takes to be "an authentic witness of place."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
The Wild Music of Places: An Introduction	1	(21)
Blue Plateau, New South Wales
1. The Essential Prose of Things	22	(17)
2. The Edge of the Trees	39	(63)
BARRY LOPEZ
McKenzie River Valley, Oregon
3. The Long Coastline	102	(48)
PETER MATTHIESSEN
Sagaponack, New York
4. The Heart of an Arid Land	150	(50)
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
The Colorado Plateau
5. The Real World	200	(78)
JAMES GALVIN
Boulder Ridge and Sheep Creek, Wyoming-Colorado Border; Iowa City, Iowa
Catching the Lyric of the Country: A Conclusion	278	(29)
Lavender Bay and the Blue Plateau, New South Wales
Bibliography
Nature Writing, Other Prose, and Poetry	307	(10)
Scholarly Works, Texts, Guides, and References	317	(12)
Index	329