Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature AUTH-4698156 of the eastern United States

of the eastern United States discovering the West

In this compact yet substantial volume

- Reveals the psychosomatic underpinnings of Zen

and the perils of the planet

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature AUTH-4698156 of the eastern United StatesSisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women's writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioning an alternative world in which human beings are not estranged from their planet; and Julia Butterfly Hill