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Article: Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest. (Books of Note).
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- Environment
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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edited by Scott Slovic; University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2001; 400 pp., $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8165-1664-2), $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8165-1665-0)
This rich collection of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published during the last decade of the twentieth century takes its title from western writer Wallace Stegner's first requirement for appreciating the arid West: "You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns [and] get used to an inhuman scale." Including new voices as well as such established figures as Rudolfo Anaya, Terry Tempest Williams, John Daniel, and Joy Harjo, this anthology aims to showcase ...