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The Shimmering Is All There Is : On Nature, God, Science, and More
Title
The Shimmering Is All There Is : On Nature, God, Science, and More / Heather Catto Kohout ; edited by Martin Donell Kohout.
ISBN
9781623499518
9781623499501
1623499518
Edition
First edition.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament-as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country-permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh-gently-at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself. Heather Kohout's essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Women in Texas history
Contents
Foreword / Nancy Baker Jones
Introduction / Martin Donell Kohout
Essays / Heather Catto Kohout: The Wonder and Power of Water
Dreaming Time
A Mother's Legacy
Growing Hope
"Everywhere There's Lots of Piggies ..."
Carnivorocity
James Cameron, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Nature of Nature
Massachusetts, Part I: Of Books and Houses and Hospitality
Massachusetts, Part II: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Mapping the Geography of Hope: Our Place in the Wilderness
Sorry, Dad: Wilderness and Government Regulation
Purity, Ambiguity, and the Investment Portfolio
The Devil's Bargain: On Gardening and Violence
Still More on Violence: There Will Be Blood
Home with the Armadillo: A Love Letter to Texas
The Gift Economy
Made for You and Me: Some Thoughts on Private Property
Double Vision: Prophets, Tribalism, Eugenics, and the Environment
Cleaning Out the Mental Refrigerator: Niebuhr, McKibben, and Band-Aids
"A Cup of Tea, a Warm Bath, and a Brisk Walk"
Stubbing the Giant's Toe: Thoughts on Midwestern Agribusiness
Hall of Mirrors: The Lost Art of Conversation
Of Mothers and Mountains
Barbers, Bison Meat, and the Invisible Hand
"Sit. Stay. Stay! I Said STAY, Dammit!"
Faith, Bureaucracy, and Sheep: Thoughts on Changing One's Mind
Hosts, Guests, and Strangers: Thoughts on Hospitality
Singing in the Dark
The Rising Light
Shooting Holes in the Constitution: Some Thoughts on Guns and Violence
Meat and Flourishment: Carnivorocity, Take Two
A Field That Don't Yield: Writer's Block and the Language of Community
Lenten Reflections: Dead Trees, Bafflement, and Submission
Tragic Waste: Some Thoughts on the S-Word
Dorothea Brooke, Betty Friedan, and Big Ag
The Power of Poetry: Peace, Demons, Sonnets, and Resurrection
Learning to Listen, and Love
Gratuitous Beauty
Signs of the Times: Billboards, Property Rights, and the Enlightenment
Field Notes from Madron̳o Ranch: Bison and Birds
Silos: My Beef with Freeman Dyson
Food Science: Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, and the Old Testament
Children of Dawn: Sin in the Twenty-First Century
A Furry Flurry of Fully Furrowed Brows: My Beef with Freeman Dyson, Part II
Re-Wilding the Monocultural Self
Edsels and the Enlightenment: The Downside of Corporate Personhood
Field Notes from Inside My Head: Connecting Art and Commerce
Angels in the Dark
A Father's Legacy
Submission Guidelines
Take Me to the River
Bonfires in the Soul
Spring Creed
Microbiomes and Individual Identity: Alexander Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury
Jellyfish and Revelation
The Cliff of the Unknown: Desire, Tolerance, and Identity
Poetry and the Pelvic Bowl
A Tale of Two Kitties: Thinking About Predators and Cancer
This and Not That
The Unsteady Rock: Descartes, Salamanders, and the Nicene Creed
Mind the Gap: Ghosts, Trees, and Goodbye to a River
Repairing the World: Beatles, Alaskan Mountain Goats, and Asiatic Cheetahs
Poems: Invocation
Prophet
Compunction
What She Knew
Sacrifice
Proof
Within
With
Ordination
Ordination: Piedras Negras
Beside
Beneath.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Essays.
Poetry.
Essays.
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