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1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; Homes; Judith Minty, HOMES: Living with Lake Michigan; Linda Nemec Foster, Lake Erie as the Color of Hazel Eyes; Sue William Silverman, Freshwater; Sharon Dilworth, Shiver Me Timbers; Linda Loomis, Lake Effect; Beth Ann Fennelly, Finding My Way Home; Gayle Boss, Dunetop Dying; Anne-Marie Oomen, Water Birds; Susan Power, Chicago Waters; Trouble; Laura Kasischke, The Gray Lady of Lake Huron; Elizabeth A. Trembley, Against the Law; Claudia Skutar, Getting to Water; Heather Sellers, Lake Talk; Jacqueline Kolosov, Water Lessons; Leigh Allison Wilson, Elemental Fine; Gifts |
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Annick Smith, The Importance of DunesMary Blocksma, Aboard; Judith Arcana, Walking the Lake's Edge in Winter; Leslie Stainton, Getting to the Point; Anna Mills, Leap; Lisa Lenzo, Bodies of Water; Loraine Anderson, The Salmon; Diane Wakoski, Surfin' USA; Gail Louise Siegel, Hunting the Moon; Ghosts; Gail Griffin, Manitou Passage; Judith Strasser, In the Apostle Islands; Rachel Azima, Ripples of Azure and Grey, An Excerpt; Susan Laidlaw, The Souls of Trees; Kathleen Stocking, Storm Light on Bois Blanc Island |
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Rasma Haidri, A Mother Reaches Satori on the Tenth Anniversary of Her Son's Drowning in Lake MichiganRachael Perry, Lake Huron's Tide; Uplake and Down; Alison Swan, The Kettle; Donna Seaman, Reflections from a Concrete Shore; Stephanie Mills, The Least Thing; Aleta Karstad, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Boats: Excerpts from a Naturalist's Lake Huron Journals; Mary Blocksma, Hunting and Fishing; Janet Kauffman, Down the Drain; Mary Blocksma, Littoral Drift; Jane Urquhart, The Forest Pasture; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a collection of nonfiction works by women writers. These works focus on the Midwest: living with the five interconnected freshwater seas that we know as the Great Lakes. Contributing to this collection are renowned poets, essayists, and fiction writers, all of whom write about their own creative streams of consciousness, the fresh waters of the Great Lakes, and the region''s many rivers: Loraine Anderson, Judith Arcana, Rachel Azima, Mary Blocksma, Gayle Boss, Sharon Dilworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Linda Nemec Foster, Gail Griffin, Rasma Haidri, A |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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A 2007 Michigan Notable Books selection |
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American prose literature -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
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Canadian prose literature -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
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Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
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Women authors, Canadian -- Homes and haunts -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
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NATURE -- Essays.
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American prose literature
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Canadian prose literature
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Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts
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Great Lakes Region (North America) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001664
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Great Lakes Region
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006017110 |
| ISBN |
9781609171049 |
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1609171047 |
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9781628951349 |
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1628951346 |
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