{"product_id":"this-impermanent-earth-environmental-writing-from-the-georgia-review-9780820360270","title":"This Impermanent Earth: Environmental Writing from the Georgia Review","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its thirty-three essays, \u003ci\u003eThis Impermanent Earth\u003c\/i\u003e charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms, to a more inclusive expansion that considers all human surroundings as material for environmental inquiry. Likewise, the approaches range from formal essays to prose works that reflect the movement toward innovation and experimentation. The collection builds as it progresses; later essays grow from earlier ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis\u003ci\u003e Impermanent Earth \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a historical survey of a literary form, however. \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e's talented writers and its longtime commitment to the art of editorial practice have produced a collection that is, as one reviewer put it, \"incredibly moving, varied, and inspiring.\" It is a book that will be as at home in the reading room as in the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Carlson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DOUGLAS CARLSON is associate prose editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of \u003ci\u003eRoger Tony Peterson: A Biography, \u003c\/i\u003eand his work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen We Say We're Home. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has served on the Faculty Editorial Board for UGA Press and has also served advisory roles for \u003ci\u003eAscent \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, White Wine Press, and New Rivers Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoham Patel (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SOHAM PATEL is associate poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry including \u003ci\u003eand nevermind the storm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Weather Drafts\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe full-length collections \u003ci\u003eto afar from afar \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eever really hear it\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2017 Subito Prize. Patel is a Kundiman fellow and a poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eFence. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Georgia Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382163378450,"sku":"9780820360270","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ac2e9abd-1f9f-41cb-a192-4a61f14a82ee.jpg?v=1728705906","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-impermanent-earth-environmental-writing-from-the-georgia-review-9780820360270","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}