WRITERLY DEFINITIONS
Purchase at Trinity Press or local bookstores
Several of Emily’s definitions can be read on this site, including: landing, lek, nook, quicksand, sandhill, swag, tableland, and yazoo
HOME GROUND
Language for an American Landscape
Edited by Barry Lopez & Debra Gwartney
(Trinity Press, 2006)
Contributors include Barbara Kingsolver, Emily Hiestand, Bill McKibben, Frank Burroughs, Gretel Erlich, and 40 other noted writers.
“A masterpiece”
“This visionary reference has revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume.”
"Tiny essays in the guise of definitions...a way of reclaiming the language." —The New York Times
”Cumulatively, the entries reveal the storied particulars of our continent — from the dreen tides of New England to the pingos of Alaska.”