Fresh water : women writing on the Great Lakes / Alison Swan, editor.
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2006.
ISBN: 0870137891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780870137891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description: xi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: American prose literature Great Lakes Region (North America).
Canadian prose literature Great Lakes Region (North America).
Women authors, American Homes and haunts Great Lakes Region (North America).
Women authors, Canadian Homes and haunts Great Lakes Region (North America).
Great Lakes Region (North America).
Contents: HOMES: Homes: living with Lake Michigan / Judith Minty -- Lake Erie as the color of hazel eyes / Linda Nemec Foster -- Freshwater / Sue William Silverman -- Shiver my timbers / Sharon Dilworth -- Lake effect / Linda Loomis -- Finding my way home / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Dunetop dying / Gayle Boss -- Water birds / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Chicago waters / Susan Powers -- TROUBLE: The gray lady of the Lake Huron -- Against the law / Elizabeth A. Trembley -- Getting to water / Claudia Skutar -- Lake talk / Heather Sellers -- Water lessons / Jacqueline Kolosow -- Elemental fine / Leigh Allison Wilson -- GIFTS: The importance of dunes / Annick Smith -- Aboard / Mary Blocksma -- Walking the lake's edge in water / Judith Arcana -- Getting to the point / Leslie Stainton -- Leap / Anna Mills -- Bodies of water / Lisa Lenzo -- The salmon / Loraine Anderson -- Surfin' USA / Diane Wakoski -- Hunting the moon / Gail Louise Siegel -- GHOSTS: Manitou passage / Gail Griffin -- In the Apostle Islands / Judith Strasser -- Ripples of azure and grey, an excerpt / Rachel Azima -- The souls of time / Susan Laidlaw -- Storm light on Bois Blanc Island / Kathleen Stocking -- A mother reaches Santori on the tenth anniversary of her son's drowning in Lake Michigan / Rasma Haidri -- Lake Huron's tide / Rachel Perry -- UPLAKE AND DOWN: The kettle / Alison Swan -- Reflections from a concrete shore / Donna Seaman -- The least thing / Stephanie Mills -- Amphibians, reptiles, and boats: excerpts fro a Naturalist's Lake Huron Journals / Aleta Karstad -- Hunting and fishing / Mary Blocksma -- Down the drain / Janet Kauffman -- Littoral drift / Mary Blocksma -- The forest pasture / Jane Urquhart.
