| The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie Contributor(s): Smith, Annick (Editor), O'Connor, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080321751X ISBN-13: 9780803217515 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: "Few things have defined the American experience as fully as the open prairie. In this volume, some of our very finest modern writers and photographers provide perhaps the most rounded view we''ve ever had of this great landscape and the enduring culture it gave rise to. A true gift, for people of every region."--Bill McKibben, author of "The Bill McKibben Reader" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Poetry | American - General - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Dewey: 810.809 |
| LCCN: 2008003471 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 9.68" W x 11.02" (3.04 lbs) 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |