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January, 2009
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Lessons of the Buffalo: Author Steven Rinella on a Hunter's Conservation Ethic
Listen above or download. Running time: 6 minutes, 26 seconds.
The author Steven Rinella talks with Emily Voigt about his book "American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon," the tragic history of North America's largest land mammal, and his personal quest to hunt one in the wilds of Alaska.
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» Read review of Steven Rinella's "American Buffalo," from OnEarth's Winter 2009 issue -
Poet David Wagoner on the Wilderness Inside Us
Listen above or download. Running time: 7 minutes, 44 seconds.
Poet David Wagoner recites his poems, "Letting the Grass Grow Under Your Feet" and "By A Pond," and talks with Zachary Sussman about finding belonging in a landscape and letting go of anger over environmental ills.
Letting the Grass Grow Under Your Feet
It would rather not
but of course it will.
If you've tried standing on it
long enough, those blades
will insist on a way out
from under and up at last
into the light. You don't
have to let it do that
because it will. No matter how
stubbornly or heavily you bear down,
something inside its cells
doesn't believe in you
and your latent energy,
your postponements of action,
your useless indecision. It will grow
sideways and turn yellow or under pressure
nearly white. It will turn
to an almost all uprooted root for a while,
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City Girl in the Country: A Conversation with Poet Roberta Swann
Listen above or download. Running time: 10 minutes, 47 seconds.
Poet Roberta Swann reads her poem, “Looking Back,” and talks with Zachary Sussman about weekend naturalists, fashionable insects, and what one may see in a fly's hundred eyes.Looking Back
You can take a city girl to the country,
and get her to get on with worms,
a plague of caterpillars even,
this year's ladybugs--who doesn't like a ladybug?
But heaps, everywhere?
Back on the deck, breaking in another bikini,
she sunbathes, watching hummingbirds chase one another
from the feeder, until a chickadee runs them both
out of town--tourists anyway.
He's off
planting heirlooms, while crows hang in pines,
waiting for action. Everything is la di da, until
a neighbor starts shooting off guns and firecrackers.
And flies arrive. Slap. Spray. Pray. Plead. Read labels.
Realize repel and discourage are code for: Good Luck!
The only way out is in. So she sli... -
Thousand Mile Song: Further Adventures in Interspecies Jazz
Listen above or download. Running time: 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
Interspecies musician David Rothenberg talks with Emily Voigt about his book "Thousand Mile Song" and the challenges of playing jazz with whales.Related
» Read review of David Rothenberg's "Thousand Mile Song," from OnEarth's Summer 2008 issue.
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