Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals

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Intimate Nature celebrates woman''s long felt kinship with animals. It includes original stories, essays, meditations and poems by women nature writers and scientists including Dian Fossey, Ursula Le Guin, Rigoberta Menchu and Marge Piercy.'

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"A celebration of compassion . . . Women are opening new ways of communicating with and understanding the animal world."
--The Seattle Times

"IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK IS FOUND THE COMFORT OF READING OUR OWN HEARTS, OF FINDING OUR OWN FAMILY WITHIN THE VAST UNKNOWN OF OUR EARTHLY HOME."
--NAPRA ReView

"A SPLENDID, MULTIHUED COLLECTION . . . THESE ARE, INDEED, STORIES OF AN INTIMATE NATURE: SENSUOUS, UNSPARING, CAREFULLY MULLED, RAZOR SHARP."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A PHENOMENALLY BEAUTIFUL BOOK."
--The Woman's Journal

Author Bio

Linda Hogan, a Chicksaw poet, essayist, and novelist, worked as a volunteer in wildlife and raptor rehabilitation. In 1995 she organized a conference for tribal elders on endangered species and was part of a working group for Native input into the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. Her lifelong area of interest has been the traditional relationship between indigenous peoples and animals. Her books include Dwellings- A Spiritual History of the Living World, Book of Medicines, and Solar Storms. Deena Metzgerhas lived with wolves for twenty years, writing about them from her home in the Santa Monica mountains. As a poet, writer, and lay analyst, she has devoted her writing and working life to ecological and environmental concerns. Her books includeTree, What Dinah Thought, The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them,andWriting for Your Life. Brenda Petersonis author ifNature and Other Mothers, Living by Water,andSister Stories,as well as three novels. She is also an environmental writer and journalist. For the past twelve years she has been studying and encountering dolphins and other whales in the wild. Since 1993 she has covered the wild wolf-from its slaughter in Alaska to its reintroduction in Yellowstone and Olympic National Park. She has written, with Linda Hogan, a series of articles against proposed whaling in the Northwest forThe Seattle Times.