Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory - Softcover

Quetchenbach, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870718878 ISBN 13: 9780870718878

Publisher: Oregon State University, 2017

Synopsis

Accidental Gravity is an essay collection that moves from the author's youth in upstate New York to the contemporary western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, ""the places where tensions between human and animal nature, and between differing concepts of the natural world, come to the fore."" In the second section, he juxtaposes these humanized places with Yellowstone National Park. Quetchenbach writes about current environmental issues in the Greater Yellowstone area―wildlife, forest insects, invasive species, ever-increasing numbers of tourists―in the context of climate change and other contemporary pressures.

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About the Author

BERNARD QUETCHENBACH is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings. His most recent book is The Hermit's Place, a poetry collection, and his work has appeared in a variety of books, journals, and anthologies. He has degrees in creative writing (SUNY Brockport) and American Literature (Purdue University).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oregon State University
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870718878
• ISBN 13: 9780870718878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249