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The Green Hour : A Natural History of by Alison Townsend (2022, 9780299334604
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- Condition
- Literary Movement
- Naturalism
- ISBN
- 9780299334604
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Green Hour : a Natural History of Home
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Personal Memoirs, Essays
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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When Alison Townsend purchased her first house, in south-central Wisconsin, she put down roots where she never imagined settling. To understand how she came to live in the Midwest, she takes a journey through personal landscapes, considering the impact of geography at pivotal moments in her life, vividly illuminating the role of mourning, homesickness, and relocations. With sparkling, lyrical prose, The Green Hour undulates effortlessly through time like a red-winged blackbird. Inspired by five beloved settings--eastern Pennsylvania, Vermont, California, western Oregon, and the spot atop the Wisconsin hill where she now resides--Townsend considers the role that place plays in shaping the self. She reveals the ways that a fresh perspective or new experience in any environment can incite wonder, build unexpected connections, and provide solace or salvation. Mesmerizingly attentive to nature--its beauty, its fragility, and its redeeming powers--she asks what it means to live in community with wilderness and to allow our identities to be shaped by our interactions with it: our story as its story.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299334600
ISBN-13
9780299334604
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050025229
Product Key Features
Book Title
Green Hour : a Natural History of Home
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Personal Memoirs, Essays
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3620.O957g74 2021
Reviews
"A powerful narrative, steeped in emotion, healing, and vulnerability, one that resonates with a wide readership. Townsend's story is needed more than ever. . . . In accessible and poetic prose, Townsend appeals to a general audience. She engages her readers into becoming citizen environmental scientists and humanists. It is a call for slowing down and steeping oneself in contemplation in this accelerated and highly contested stage of the Anthropocene."-- H-Environment, "I enjoyed The Green Hour , for its prose and questing narrator, and for its evocation of landscapes and inner geography in these fine essays of loss, love, and healing."--Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of the Imagination, "I read The Green Hour outside, and every few sentences I looked up to see this familiar place through Townsend's eyes, every detail now infused with the 'proper attitude of wonder.' I suggest you take this book out with you into the world where all things are 'waiting to be noticed and seen.'"--Brenda Miller, author of An Earlier Life, "Truly a love song to wild, shining places. It is a lonely, lovely memoir of a life shaped by a mother's early death, a story from the time when the Earth still had the strength to save her children."--Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth's Wild Children, "[Wisconsin's] thriving natural paradise is on full display not just on the cover of Alison Townsend's gorgeous new memoir, The Green Hour , but also in the author's lush, lyrical words. . . . This is a nature memoir, a love letter to the land and an exploration of what it means to put down roots. Don't miss it."-- Madison Magazine, "No lines are wasted, and every sentence contains wondrous details of the natural world. . . . This book is a conversation with the places Townsend inhabits and one that fully draws the reader in with precise and detailed descriptions. Long meditative passages describing the land capture the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Each sentence contains images that bring the reader deeper and deeper into Townsend's environment."-- Hippocampus Magazine, "In essays of breathtaking beauty and emotional honesty, The Green Hour explores the psychic costs of uprooting, and the healing to be found in connecting with the natural world. Townsend is a writer so attuned to the numinous that her lyrical prose seems to shimmer on the page. An unforgettable book."--Catherine Jagoe, author of Bloodroot, "An inherently fascinating, informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking read throughout, The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home showcases author Alison Townsend's enviable skills as an observant storyteller. The result is a book that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after it has been finished and set back upon the shelf."-- Midwest Book Review
Table of Content
Contents Black Raspberries Prelude Genius Loci: Gazing into the Green I: Her Intricate Weave A Strand in Her Intricate Weave Beyond Wild Run Farm: A Travel Guide to an Eastern Pennsylvania Childhood Planting Pansies My Mother's Dress II: The Landscapes inside US My Thoreau Summer California Girl At the Bottom of the Ocean: Psych Ward, 1986 The Landscapes inside Us Coyote Crossings III: The Persistence of Rivers The Persistence of Rivers IV: A Wisconsin Book of Hours Four and Twenty In the Presence of Water High Wind Warning Window Tree Strange Angels: Encounters with Sandhill Cranes Flower Moon: A Wisconsin Book of Hours V: The Kingdom of Ordinary Things An Alphabet of Here: A Prairie Sampler Midsummer Milkweeds A Jar of Wisconsin Honey Autumn Equinox, with Asters Goldengrove Unleaving Wild Swans Elegy in December Valentine Envoi My Pink Lake and Other Digressions Acknowledgments Notes
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2021-010994
Dewey Decimal
814/.6 B
Dewey Edition
23
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