Fracture - Softcover

Brorby, Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188816090X ISBN 13: 9781888160901

Publisher: Ice Cube Press, 2016

Synopsis

Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about the pitfalls and perils of fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegner's This is Dinosaur, Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimble's Testimony, and Rick Bass and David James Duncan's The Heart of the Monster, Fracture braids together essays, poems, and fiction to help bring new understanding to the practice of fracking.

About this title

About the Author

Taylor Brorby received his M.A. in Liberal Studies from Hamline University in 2013, and is currently pursuing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Taylor s work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Rock, Paper, Scissors, The Englewood Review of Books, the Northern Plains Ethics Journal, and many others. Also, his work is forthcoming in the anthology Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College.Taylor has been awarded grants from Hamline University, St. Olaf College, Iowa State University, and the North Dakota Humanities Council. He has held residencies at Holden Village, St. Olaf College, and St. John s University. He has been interviewed about his work as a writer and environmentalist on North Dakota Public Radio and National Public Radio.Taylor is currently writing Vespers 2014: A Vespers for Climate Change and his chapbook of poetry, Ruin: Elegies from the Bakken, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post, where he writes on education and environmentalism, a contributing editor for The EcoTheo Review, a contributing editor at Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies, a reviewer of books for The Englewood Review, of journals for Review Review, as well as book review editor at Orion Magazine.

From the Inside Flap

This book bears witness to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty writers exploring the complexities of fracking through first-hand experience, investigative journalism, story-telling, and verse. At a time when politics and profits inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about the hazards of fracking, these creative perspectives are needed to ignite the national conversation about how we can live with more compassion toward Earth.In the tradition of Wallace Stegner s This is Dinosaur, Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimble s Testimony, and Rick Bass and David James Duncan s The Heart of the Monster, Fracture braids together poetry and prose that helps us envision a new course for energy development. Fracking diminishes the habitability of our world. This first-of-its-kind anthology exposes fracking s effects on local communities as well as its global impacts flares fueling climate change, oil spills into waterways, earthquakes deep below Earth s surface. Fracking has changed the national political conversation, and so will this powerful book.Here are the contributors for the anthology which also includes an introduction by Pam Houston: Rick Bass Jan Bindas-Tenney Louise A. Blum Paul Bogard Angie Carter Alison Hawthorne Deming Michelle Donahue Sarah Lyn Eaton Antonia Felix David Gessner Linda Hogan Barbara Hurd Derrick Jensen Jon Jensen Robert Jensen Michele Johnson John Kenyon Frederick L. Kirschenmann Claire Kruesel Ahna Kruzic Stephanie LeMenager Maryann Lesert Patricia Nelson Limerick Beth Loffreda Mort Malkin Richard Manning Debra Marquart Bill McKibben Wayne Mennecke Karla Linn Merrifield Jeremy J. Miller Stephanie Mills Kathryn Miles Kathleen Dean Moore Rachel Morgan Mary Heather Noble Andrea Peacock Tyler Priest Carolyn Raffensperger Jacqueline Robb Bill Roorbach Stephanie Schultz Scott Slovic Mark Trechock Stephen Trimble Susan Truxell Sauter Vivian Wagner Amy Weldon

Edition details

• Publisher: Ice Cube Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 188816090X
• ISBN 13: 9781888160901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 490