Author: Susan Barba
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647006058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers—perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers who are intimately acquainted with the nature in their neighborhoods. There are female writers, Black writers, gay writers, indigenous writers. There are botanists like William Bartram, George Washington Carver, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, and horticultural writers like Neltje Blanchan and Eleanor Perényi. There are prose pieces by Aldo Leopold, Lydia Davis, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. And most of all, there are poems: from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton and Louise Glück, Natalie Diaz and Jericho Brown. The book includes exquisite watercolors by Leanne Shapton throughout and is organized by species and botanical family—think of it as a field guide to the literary imagination.
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide
Author: Susan Barba
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647006058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers—perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers who are intimately acquainted with the nature in their neighborhoods. There are female writers, Black writers, gay writers, indigenous writers. There are botanists like William Bartram, George Washington Carver, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, and horticultural writers like Neltje Blanchan and Eleanor Perényi. There are prose pieces by Aldo Leopold, Lydia Davis, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. And most of all, there are poems: from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton and Louise Glück, Natalie Diaz and Jericho Brown. The book includes exquisite watercolors by Leanne Shapton throughout and is organized by species and botanical family—think of it as a field guide to the literary imagination.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647006058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers—perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers who are intimately acquainted with the nature in their neighborhoods. There are female writers, Black writers, gay writers, indigenous writers. There are botanists like William Bartram, George Washington Carver, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, and horticultural writers like Neltje Blanchan and Eleanor Perényi. There are prose pieces by Aldo Leopold, Lydia Davis, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. And most of all, there are poems: from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton and Louise Glück, Natalie Diaz and Jericho Brown. The book includes exquisite watercolors by Leanne Shapton throughout and is organized by species and botanical family—think of it as a field guide to the literary imagination.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region
Author: William A. Niering
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to identifying more than 600 species of wildflowers from the eastern region of North America.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to identifying more than 600 species of wildflowers from the eastern region of North America.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers--W
Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375402330
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fully revised edition brings a new level of beauty, accuracy, and usefulness to the field guide that wildflower enthusiasts have relied upon for more than 20 years. More than 940 all-new, full-color images show the wildflowers of western North America close-up and in their natural habitats. The guide has been completely revised to make identification in the field easier than ever. Images are grouped by flower color and shape and keyed to clear, concise descriptions that reflect current taxonomy.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375402330
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fully revised edition brings a new level of beauty, accuracy, and usefulness to the field guide that wildflower enthusiasts have relied upon for more than 20 years. More than 940 all-new, full-color images show the wildflowers of western North America close-up and in their natural habitats. The guide has been completely revised to make identification in the field easier than ever. Images are grouped by flower color and shape and keyed to clear, concise descriptions that reflect current taxonomy.
Field Book of American Wild Flowers
Author: Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Excerpt from Field Book of American Wild Flowers: Being a Short Description of Their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition of Their Colors, and Incidental References to the Insects Which Assist in Their Fertilization quite recently, in a conversation about art with Mr. Fosdick, the artist, he remarked to me that those who followed our profession were legitimately and continually seeking after expression regardless of limitation. I have since thought this was a very happy truth. Perhaps, therefore, it is sufficient to account for the exist. Hence of a volume on our American ora, fully one half of which is pictures.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Excerpt from Field Book of American Wild Flowers: Being a Short Description of Their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition of Their Colors, and Incidental References to the Insects Which Assist in Their Fertilization quite recently, in a conversation about art with Mr. Fosdick, the artist, he remarked to me that those who followed our profession were legitimately and continually seeking after expression regardless of limitation. I have since thought this was a very happy truth. Perhaps, therefore, it is sufficient to account for the exist. Hence of a volume on our American ora, fully one half of which is pictures.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Western Region
Author: Richard Spellenberg
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
These are fully illustrated with color photographs, comprehensive field guides including extensive descriptions covering appearance, habitat, range and much more!
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
These are fully illustrated with color photographs, comprehensive field guides including extensive descriptions covering appearance, habitat, range and much more!
The New Field Book of American Wild Flowers
Author: Harold W Rickett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780399121579
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780399121579
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers. Western region
Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Field Guide to Wildflowers
Author:
Publisher: Main Street Press
ISBN: 9781402706950
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
From a raspberry-scented and crimson-pink Orchid to a small, light-blue Forget-Me-Not, a spectacular display of the most exquisite wild flowers blossom in this lavishly illustrated reference, based on F. Schuyler Mathews’ landmark Field Book of American Wild Flowers. Filled with updated information, striking line drawings, and color photos, it will please everyone from armchair enthusiasts to hikers looking for a dependable guide. Each entry features the flower’s common name, color, season, and more. Species covered include: lacy Three-Leaved False Solomon’s Seal; a brilliantly colored Wild Orange-Red Lily; the pretty purple Dwarf Iris; the sunny yellow Wild Senna; and Wintergreen, with its aromatic berries.ide.
Publisher: Main Street Press
ISBN: 9781402706950
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
From a raspberry-scented and crimson-pink Orchid to a small, light-blue Forget-Me-Not, a spectacular display of the most exquisite wild flowers blossom in this lavishly illustrated reference, based on F. Schuyler Mathews’ landmark Field Book of American Wild Flowers. Filled with updated information, striking line drawings, and color photos, it will please everyone from armchair enthusiasts to hikers looking for a dependable guide. Each entry features the flower’s common name, color, season, and more. Species covered include: lacy Three-Leaved False Solomon’s Seal; a brilliantly colored Wild Orange-Red Lily; the pretty purple Dwarf Iris; the sunny yellow Wild Senna; and Wintergreen, with its aromatic berries.ide.
A Field Guide to Wildflowers
Author: Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395911723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book is a guide to the wildflowers in the Northcentral and Eastern regions of the United States.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395911723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book is a guide to the wildflowers in the Northcentral and Eastern regions of the United States.