Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America - Softcover

Stefanie Brook Trout; Taylor Brorby; Pam Houston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188816090X ISBN 13: 9781888160901

Publisher: Ice Cube Press, LLC, 2016

Synopsis

Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegners 'This is Dinosaur,' Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimbles 'Testimony,' and Rick Bass and David James Duncans 'The Heart of the Monster,' Fracture braids together essays, poems, and fiction to help bring new understanding to the plight of fracking. Pam Houston provides an introduction.

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This book bears witness to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty writers exploring the complexities of fracking through first-hand experience, investigative journalism, story-telling, and verse. At a time when politics and profits inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about the hazards of fracking, these creative perspectives are needed to ignite the national conversation about how we can live with more compassion toward Earth.In the tradition of Wallace Stegner’s This is Dinosaur, Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimble’s Testimony, and Rick Bass and David James Duncan’s The Heart of the Monster, Fracture braids together poetry and prose that helps us envision a new course for energy development. Fracking diminishes the habitability of our world. This first-of-its-kind anthology exposes fracking’s effects on local communities as well as its global impacts—flares fueling climate change, oil spills into waterways, earthquakes deep below Earth’s surface. Fracking has changed the national political conversation, and so will this powerful book.Here are the contributors for the anthology which also includes an introduction by Pam Houston: Rick Bass Jan Bindas-Tenney Louise A. Blum Paul Bogard Angie Carter Alison Hawthorne Deming Michelle Donahue Sarah Lyn Eaton Antonia Felix David Gessner Linda Hogan Barbara Hurd Derrick Jensen Jon Jensen Robert Jensen Michele Johnson John Kenyon Frederick L. Kirschenmann Claire Kruesel Ahna Kruzic Stephanie LeMenager Maryann Lesert Patricia Nelson Limerick Beth Loffreda Mort Malkin Richard Manning Debra Marquart Bill McKibben Wayne Mennecke Karla Linn Merrifield Jeremy J. Miller Stephanie Mills Kathryn Miles Kathleen Dean Moore Rachel Morgan Mary Heather Noble Andrea Peacock Tyler Priest Carolyn Raffensperger Jacqueline Robb Bill Roorbach Stephanie Schultz Scott Slovic Mark Trechock Stephen Trimble Susan Truxell Sauter Vivian Wagner Amy Weldon

About the Author

Taylor Brorby is an awardwinning essayist, and poet. A fellow at the Black Earth Institute, he is at work on both an essay and poetry collection and is also Reviews Editor for Orion magazine.
Stefanie Brook Trout is a native Michigander and an editor of Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ice Cube Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 188816090X
• ISBN 13: 9781888160901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Stefanie Brook Trout, Taylor Brorby