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Nature and Childhood Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree (Houghton Mifflin) and Scott Russell Sanders Writing from the Center (Indiana University Press) The writers discuss how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination.

What is Nature Literacty? Robert Hass Sun Under Wood (Ecco)David Abram The Spell of the Senuous (Pantheon)Alison Hawthorne Deming Science and Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press) Has literacy alienated us from nature? If written language is the cause of separation, can nature-writing provide a way to re-connect? The panelists strive to answer those questions, exploring early oral cultures and the development of the written alphabet.

Barry Lopez Field Notes (Avon) Can nature-writing heal the rift between civilzation and nature? Does activism disturb the making of art? National Book Award winner Lopez discusses the cultural tradition of nature writing.

Reynolds Price Three Gospels (Scribners)On the harshness of faith and the rigors of translation: To most people, the Gospels have the mellifluous sound of the King James version. Novelist Reynolds Price translates two of the Gospels from the original Greek, and the results are startling.

Robert Bly The Sibling Society (Addison Wesley)The relationship between interpretation and story-telling stands, in this conversation,for the relationships between meaning and action, old and young, responsibility and shallowness.

Grace Paley The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The invaluable, funny, mischief-makerGrace Paley speaks of Jews, men, politics, children and the voices that have entered her permanent, memorable stories.

Barbara Guest Selected Poems; Fair Realism (Sun & Moon) "What; is Truth?" is the central questionof Modern Poetry. Barbara Guest approaches that question delicately, wittily and unpretentiously.

Remote (Knopf)

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Random House)