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Ecology of a Cracker Childhoodby Janisse RayISBN 1571312471 (1-57131-247-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of a Cracker Childhood'Book summary:The scrubby forests of southern Georgia, dotting a landscape of low hills and swampy bottoms, are not what many people would consider to be exalted country, the sort of place to inspire lyrical considerations of nature and culture. Yet that is just what essayist Janisse Ray delivers in her memorable debut, a memoir of life in a part of America that roads and towns have passed by, a land settled by hardscrabble Scots herders who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, and who bear the derogatory epithet "cracker" with quiet pride.
Ray grew up in a junkyard outside what had been longleaf pine forest, an ecosystem that has nearly disappeared in the American South through excessive logging. Her family had little money, but that was not important; they more than made up for material want through unabashed love and a passion for learning, values that underlie every turn of Ray's narrative. She finds beauty in weeds and puddles, celebrates the ways of tortoises and woodpeckers, and argues powerfully for the virtues of establishing a connection with one's native ground.
"I carry the landscape inside like an ache," Ray writes. Her evocations of fog-enshrouded woods and old ways of living are not without pain for all that has been lost--but full of hope as well for what can be saved. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness In A Fragmented Landby Janisse RayISBN 1931498741 (1-931498-74-1)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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Where We Stand: Voices Of Southern Dissentby John Egerton, Paul M. Gaston, Laughlin McDonald, Sheldon Hackney, Susan Ford Wiltshire, Janisse Ray , Daniel H. Pollitt, Connie Curry, Leslie Dunbar, Dan Carter, Gene Nichol, Anthony P. Dunbar, Anthony Dunbar, Jimmy CarterISBN 1588381692 (1-58838-169-2)
Hardcover, John F Blair Pub
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Homeby Janisse RayISBN 1571312722 (1-57131-272-2)
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Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology Of Homeby Janisse RayISBN 1571312781 (1-57131-278-1)
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