Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

Sisters 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 on weathering a fierce storm in the redwood tree where she lived for more than two years. Here, too, are poems, essays, stories, and journal entries by Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker, Terry Tempest Williams, Willa Cather, Gretel Erlich, Adrienne Rich, and others—each offering a vivid, eloquent response to the natural world.

This second edition of Sisters of the Earth is fully revised and updated with a new preface and nearly fifty new pieces, including new contributions by Louise Erdrich, Pam Houston, Zora Neale Hurston, Starhawk, Joy Williams, Kathleen Norris, Rita Dove, and Barbara Kingsolver.

• Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
• The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)
• The Pine Barrens
• Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
• Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)
• Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist
• At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women’s Nature Writing
• Tao of Nature: Earthway's Wisdom of Daily Living from Grandmother Earth
• Great Women Exploring Nature: How Wild Florida Influenced Their Lives