Sisters of the Earth : [electronic resource] women's prose and poetry about nature / edited and with a preface by Lorraine Anderson.

"A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-410) and index.

Also issued online.

A collection of women's writing on nature---poems, essays, stories and journal entries.

Fire / Joy Harjo -- Prologue from Woman and nature / Susan Griffin -- The joy-song of nature / Opal Whiteley -- Breaklight / Lucille Clifton -- Walking / Linda Hogan -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Being still / Margaret Hasse -- Home to the wilderness / Sally Carrighar -- The magnolia tree / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- A breeze swept through / Luci Tapahonso -- The many and the one / Barbara Dean -- I will lie down / May Swenson -- Rolling naked in the morning dew / Pattiann Rogers -- A rinse in the river / Ann Zwinger -- The magic of the flats / Clare Leighton -- Christmas in Driftwood Valley / Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher -- Visual opium / Diane Ackerman -- Why? / Emily Dickinson -- Afternoon in the woods / Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Childhood on White Island / Celia Laighton Thaxter -- Green thoughts in a green shade / Katharine S. White -- A bouquet of wild flowers / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- On the hills / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- In nameless places / Hannah Hinchman -- The streets of the mountains / Mary Austin -- Trek to Blue Lake / Mabel Dodge Luhan -- The song of the Limberlost / Gene Stratton-Porter -- Love poem / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Why do you keep those cats? / Judith Minty -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- The recognition / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- River history / Gretel Ehrlich -- Annunciation / Meridel Le Sueur -- Wild / Mary Donahoe -- Night song / Martha Reben -- Becoming feral / Sue Hubbell -- The safety behind me / Rebecca Gonzales -- The feel of the outdoors / Edna Brush Perkins -- The lure of the desert / Idah Meacham Strobridge -- In a valley of peace / Ella Higginson -- Running Lava Falls / China Galland -- The old one and the wind / Clarice Short -- My help is in the mountain ; Earth cure me / Nancy Wood -- The ancient people / Willa Cather -- The back-road / Abbie Huston Evans -- Journal entries / Edith Warner -- Longing / Ina Coolbirth -- The bowl / Terry Tempest Williams -- Lesson 1 ; Lesson 2 / Pat Mora -- The glade / Jean Liedloff -- Meadow turf / Janet Lewis -- The miracle of renewal -- Laura Lee Davidson -- On a winter morning / Josephine Johnson -- Depression in winter / Jane Kenyon -- Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov -- Why did the Balinese chicken cross the road? / Alice Walker -- Life with a wolf pack / Lois Crisler -- Wildlife in the home / Margaret Murie -- The fawn / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- To build a dam / Hope Ryden -- Two creatures of the long-shadowed forest / Helen Hoover -- Turning the garden in middle age / Maxine Kumin -- A little nomad / Anna Botsford Comstock -- Drama on a wooden fence / Mary Leister -- Dance of giants / Diana Kappel-Smith -- Changing / Barbara Meyn -- Among my closest friends / Anne LaBastille -- The old cherry tree / Hildegard Flanner -- Iceberg / Katharine Scherman -- The man / Judith McCombs -- The last antelope / Mary Austin -- The hunt ; Use / Susan Griffin -- Love canal / Janice Mirikitani -- Earth's green mantle / Rachel Carson -- Bitter root rituals / Barbara Mor -- Rape / Hazel Heckman -- Homesick / Marge Piercy -- Sea / Anne W. Simon -- Oil / Linda Hogan -- The Alegria canyon ; Afterword to The ranch papers / Jane Hollister Wheelwright -- Contradictions: tracking poems, part 18 / Adrienne Rich -- Spirit of love / Barbara Deming -- Turning to another way / Elizabeth Dodson Gray -- Dynamics / Nancy Newhall -- The rainbow bridge / Brooke Medicine Eagle -- Kopis'taya (a gathering of spirits) / Paula Gunn Allen -- A woman's dance / Terry Tempest Williams -- The common living dirt / Marge Piercy -- Native origin / Beth Brant -- Waking up at the rake / Linda Hogan -- End of the beginning / Dorothy Richards with Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci -- Mind in the waters / Joan McIntyre -- May's lion / Ursula Le Guin -- Demeter / Genevieve Taggard