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A Habit of Landscape celebrates the convergent meanings of habit and habitat. each sharing the words "to dwell." These poems hold sensate moments-family experiences, inner revelations, transformative places. A realized kinship between the human and natural worlds signals the inclusiveness of place. Not something "out there, " this shared space-personal or global- often surprises in the poem's turn. Like flash narratives these poems contain wor...

A Habit of Landscape celebrates the convergent meanings of habit and habitat. each sharing the words "to dwell." These poems hold sensate moments-family experiences, inner revelations, transformative places. A realized kinship between the human and natural worlds signals the inclusiveness of place. Not something "out there, " this shared space-personal or global- often surprises in the poem's turn. Like flash narratives these poems contain wor...

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When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empty, flat, and barely habitable. Contemporary developments-cell phone towers, oil rigs, and wind turbines-have only added to this stereotype. Yet in this lyrical ecomemoir, Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown land, a journey at once deeply personal and far-reaching in i...

The Life and Work of the fascinating creator of the Kewpie doll.

When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empty, flat, and barely habitable. Contemporary developments-cell phone towers, oil rigs, and wind turbines-have only added to this stereotype. Yet in this lyrical ecomemoir, Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown land, a journey at once deeply personal and far-reaching in i...

A "personal ecology" is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept on New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau. The journals, dating from her childhood in the 1930s through 1986, the year of her death, are studies in spiritual and psychological responses to the landscape that informed her sensibilities and creative energy. The plateau she loved became both her subject and the basis of her connection to other women writers.