This program, featuring Barry Lopez, renowned fiction writer
Antonya Nelson, and writer/editor Debra Gwartney, focuses on the book, Home
Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Edited by Lopez and Gwartney,
Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers—including Nelson, Barbara
Kingsolver, Robert Hass, Patricia Hampl, and Jon Krakauer—to write the definitions
for the words we use to describe the diverse landscapes of the U.S. Lopez will
give a brief reading, Nelson will join him for a conversation on the language
of landscape, and Gwartney will discuss the making of the book.
BARRY
LOPEZ is the author of Arctic Dreams, which won the National Book Award,
Of Wolves and Men, Resistance, Light Action in the Carribean,
and 11 other works of fiction and nonfiction. He is author of the lead essay in
the catalog for the Museum of Fine Art Houston's exhibition, The Modern West,
which opens October 27th.
ANTONYA NELSON, one of The
New Yorker's "20 Writers for the 21st Century," is the author of three novels
and four story collections, including Talking in Bed, Female Trouble, and
her latest, Some Fun.
DEBRA GWARTNEY is a writer,
editor, and university teacher who lives in Eugene, Oregon.
