Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction (Made in Michigan Writers Series) 9780814345672, 9780814345689, 0814345670

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Earth
Earth
Before the Garden Is Extinct
Nature is Primary, Wonder Inborn
Standing Beneath the Glacier
Edge
The Language of Trees
Bending Nails
Water
Billy Goats, Boyhood Dreams, and the Coming Apocalypse
A Harvest Moon
A Changing of Worlds
Purely Water
August at Gun Lake
Twelve Waves
Wind
Mirrored Transoms
Ruth Stone￢ﾀﾙs Funeral
From Manhattan to Leelanau: How Place Shapes Our Sense of Self
Crossing the Cuesta
At Springhill Farm
Fire
Unforgettable Baby
Small-Town Monsters
At the Inn
Can￢ﾀﾙt Help Lovin￢ﾀﾙ Dat Winter of Mine
Animalia Repeating: A Pavlovian Account in Parts
Body Studies: Arabets
Contributors