On common ground Learning and living in the Loess Hills
Book - 2023
"On Common Ground is an exciting multidisciplinary, multimodal project and partnership between the arts and sciences. This convergence of writers, naturalists, artists, and various -ologists took place in the fall of 2021 in the northern Loess Hills. These hills form a narrow band along the eastern edge of the Missouri River floodplain for approximately 200 miles, stretching much of the Iowa border. Sculpted from the deepest deposits of wind-borne glacial silt in the United States, these Hills remain home to a significant collection, both in size and number, of Iowa's remnant prairies"--
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- Published
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North Liberty, Iowa :
Ice Cube Press
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-234).
- ISBN
- 9781948509459
- Foreword
- Introduction
- "At Last, We Meet in the Hills"
- "Write the Land in Fire" …
- "Learning to Attend from the Hills" …
- "Burning to Cool" …
- "Rabbit on Fire" …
- "Sugar-Clay" …
- "Prairie Passages" …
- "Buffalo for the Broken Kettle" …
- "Curving Infinities" …
- "Loessland Depositions" …
- "Joy, Hollow" …
- "Walking on Sky" …
- Photographs …
- "Prairie, a Sacred Creation" …
- "Prairie Hills Companion" …
- "Cliffs in my Soul Life" …
- "Standing Our Common Ground" …
- "I am a Loess Hill" …
- "A Life" …
- "Aubade" …
- "For the Long Haul: A Tale of Friendship, Nature, and Survival" …
- "Places" …
- "For the Next Generation" …
- Epilogue
- "Reflections from Our Common Ground" …
- Acknowledgments
- References and Readings
- Endnotes
- Contributors
- Editors