{"product_id":"waters-edge-writing-on-water-paperback","title":"Water's Edge: Writing on Water - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLenore Manderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eForrest Gander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCoral Bracho\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging consideration of water\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e's plenitude and paucity--and of our relationship to its many forms\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Water is quotidian, ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this element, the authors of \u003ci\u003eWater's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e reflect on our natural environment: its forms, textures, and stewardship. Born from a colloquium organized by the editors at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, the anthology features a diverse group of writers and artists from half a dozen countries, from different fields of scholarship and practice: artists, biologists, geologists, poets, ecocritics, actors, and anthropologists. The contributors explore and celebrate water while reflecting on its disturbances and pollution, and their texts and art play with the boundaries by which we differentiate literary forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art collected here, water moves from backdrop to subject. Ashley Dawson examines the effects of industrial farming on the health of local ecosystems and economies. Painter Kulvinder Kaur Dhew captures water's brilliance and multifaceted reflections through a series of charcoal pieces that interlace the collection. Poet Arthur Sze describes the responsibility involved in the careful management of irrigation ditches in New Mexico. Rather than concentrating their thoughts into a singular, overwhelming argument, the authors circulate moments of apprehension, intimation, and felt experience. They are like tributaries, each carrying, in a distinctive style, exigent and often intimate reports concerning a substance upon which all living organisms depend.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLENORE MANDERSON\u003c\/b\u003e is a distinguished professor of public health and medical anthropology in the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. From 2014 to 2019 she was also a distinguished visiting professor at Brown University in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. The Society for Applied Anthropology recognized Manderson's career achievements with the 2023 Bronislaw Malinowski Award. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSurface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self, \u003c\/i\u003e among other books; her most recent coedited work is \u003ci\u003eViral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Australia, she now divides her time between Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFORREST GANDER, \u003c\/b\u003ea writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Northern California. Gander's book \u003ci\u003eBe With\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. \u003ci\u003eCore Samples from the World\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Among his other recent titles are the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Trace\u003c\/i\u003e and two translations: \u003ci\u003eThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIt Must Be a Misunderstanding: Poems by Coral Bracho\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772197929248,"sku":"9780810145795","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a275a93b698da18ff3a0b70ebffa2c00.webp?v=1780401030","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/waters-edge-writing-on-water-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}