| Description |
xviii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-302). |
| Contents |
Language goes two ways / Gary Snyder -- Urban nature writing / Matthew Sharpe -- White clouds and the BQE : using children's literature to explore the theme of nature in the city / Susan Karwoska -- The land keeps talking to us / Joseph Bruchac -- The blackbird is flying, the children must be writing / Sam Swope -- Thinking green : writing the advocacy essay / Eleanore J. Bader -- Wild child words / Kim Stafford -- A matter of scale : searching for wilderness in the city / John Tallmadge -- A pen and a paper and a breath of air / Mary Oliver -- Birds in the city : a field sketchbook / Barbara Bash -- A great excuse to stare : seeing through the eyes of a gifted drawing teacher / Sarah Juniper Rabkin -- Nature journaling with school groups / Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth -- O taste and see! : using the five senses to write about nature / Christian McEwen -- A walk through the woods : from looking to writing / Suzanne Rogier Marshall -- With my artist's eyes I see-- : encounters of estrangement with natural forms / Holly Masturzo -- The nature of nature writing / Ann H. Zwinger -- Buffalo journal : exploring an animal and an issue / Carolyn Duckworth -- What is the voice that whispers? : writing nature poems based on Pablo Neruda's Book of questions / Mary Edwards Wertsch -- The relative nature of nature : growth and change in Wallace Stevens's "A rabbit as king of the ghosts" / Michael Morse -- A delicate web : writing about animals / Penny Harter -- To clean the mind : haiku, linked poems, and the seasons / William J. Higginson -- Gardens of earthy delights / Cynde Gregory -- Beowulf rides the range : using the nature imagery in Old and Middle English poetry / Jordan Clary -- An ecosystem of writing ideas / Jack Collom -- Earth water air fire : an exercise in creative memory / Terry Hermsen -- Nature as teacher and guide : two interlocking poetry writing exercises / Margot Fortunato Galt -- The spirit voice in nature / Janine Pommy Vega -- The naming of things : being specific in nature writing / Barry Gilmore -- Prayers to the earth / Carol F. Peck. |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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Natural history -- Authorship -- Study and teaching.
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Natural history literature -- Study and teaching.
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Nature in literature -- Study and teaching.
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| Added Author |
McEwen, Christian, 1956-
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Statman, Mark, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alphabet of the trees. New York : Teachers & Writers Collaborative, c2000 (OCoLC)646979908 |
| ISBN |
0915924633 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780915924639 paperback alkaline paper |
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