| Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination Contributor(s): Hurd, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 082033152X ISBN-13: 9780820331522 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Nature | Ecology |
| Dewey: 333.918 |
| LCCN: 2007044800 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.74" W x 8.28" (0.45 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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Contributor Bio(s): Hurd, Barbara: - BARBARA HURD is the author of Stirring the Mud, Entering the Stone, Walking the Wrack Line, and a collection of poetry, The Singer's Temple. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, the Yale Review, the Georgia Review, Orion, and Audubon. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, five PushcartPrizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. |