Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870137891 ISBN 13: 9780870137891

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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, Aleta Karstad, Laura Kasischke, Janet Kauffman, Jacqueline Kolosov, Susan Laidlaw, Lisa Lenzo, Linda Loomis, Anna Mills, Stephanie Mills, Judith Minty, Anne-Marie Oomen, Rachael Perry, Susan Power, Donna Seaman, Heather Sellers, Gail Louise Siegel, Sue William Silverman,Claudia Skutar, Annick Smith, Leslie Stainton, Kathleen Stocking, Judith Strasser, Alison Swan, Elizabeth A.Trembley, Jane Urquhart, Diane Wakoski, and Leigh Allison Wilson.

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From the Publisher

Cover art is "Changes", 42"x 60" oil on canvas, ©1987 Ann Mikolowski. Used by permission of Ken Mikolowski.

From the Author

Fresh Water was inspired by several things almost at once, but the very first nudge was supplied by a beautiful book about the Colorado River called Writing Down the River, which I found at the Elliot Bay Book Company in downtown Seattle. I remember standing in that book lover's paradise on a rainy April day and reading the contributors' names: Annick Smith, Susan Zwinger, Teresa Jordan...Gretel Ehrlich wrote the forward. These Westerners are some of my literary heroes. "What we need is a book like this on the Great Lakes," I saidto my husband David. This was 2000 when there were few books on the lakes. (There still are not enough!) David was probably occupying our not-yet-one-year-old daughter Sophia, as he often did when she was still so small so I could read or write (or, just as often, sleep). Sophia was the next nudge. Writing Down the River is a book by women. Especially while I was immersed in mothering, I liked the idea of working with mothers and other women on a book that paid homage to our home landscape: the Great Lakes basin. I began to research the idea immediately.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0870137891
• ISBN 13: 9780870137891
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Swan Alison