Lopez, Barry (Editor) & Gwartney, Debra (Managing Editor)

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (Signed)

San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2006.
Illustrated by Molly O'Halloren. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, grey cloth, xxiv, 449pp, bbliographic note, indexes of terms, names, places, short bios of the contributors. Item #900535

Signed by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney on the title page. In this work, Barry Lopez has asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms -- phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and exquisitely written by contemporary authors such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, John Daniel, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, Kim Stafford, and Bill McKibben, Home Ground is a striking composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.

Very fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.

Price: $75.00