books about: understory

books about: understory

books:

Understory

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)

Jake Kosek

Duke University Press, 2006

What Lies Underneath
In a narrative that is both theoretically informative and passionately engaging, Jake Kosek brilliantly analyzes the politics of race and nature that underlie the intense conflicts that erupted over forest management in northern New Mexico. His devastating critique of ...

The Understory

Pamela Erens

Ironweed Pr Inc, 2007

Excellent, engaging first novel
Jack Gorse is a complicated man. The particularity of his nature is revealed in the book's opening paragraph as he describes an episode of curdled cream in his self-serve coffee--an episode that led him forever after to drink his coffee black and obsessively double ...

Open Field, Understory: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

James L. Seay

Louisiana State University Press, 1997

Wonderfully written!
Mr. Seay's poetry is a great inspiration to poets everywhere. He has harnessed a life's work into these pages. The reader can see his transformation from young poet to seasoned writer. He is truely one of the best modern poets around.

Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory (Landmark Editions)
Laurie Ricou

Newest Publishers, 2007

Salal is a unique book about a commonplace plant. Part travel narrative, part literary memoir, part “ethnography” of a plant that usually goes unnoticed, Laurie Ricou's book traces the poetry and culture of salal, while letting readers in on its secrets. Salal's high-gloss leaves and delicate salmon-white flowers are compelling, and ...