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FACING THE CHANGE: 
Personal Encounters with Global Warming

edited by STEVEN PAVLOS HOLMES

“Holmes has assembled a rich, varied collection of personal accounts and poems…An artistic and intimate approach to the problem that humanizes our concerns.”

—BOOKLIST

Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming is a new kind of book about climate change. Instead of experts talking at us, this innovative literary collection shares the voices of fellow citizens struggling to make sense of the concrete changes taking place in our world today. Instead of scientific facts and predictions, this book offers personal essays, poems, and short stories expressing what’s going on in people’s lives, hearts, and dreams. Instead of leaving readers guilty and disempowered, this book will help us all to begin to work through the full range of emotions—confusion, fear, sorrow, anger, and realistic hope—that we must face in confronting the crisis. Showcasing the voices of a wide range of authors—from prize-winning writers and poets such as Roxana Robinson, Audrey Schulman, and Barbara Crooker, to regular citizens and young people—Facing the Change offers a new opportunity for moving past denial and despair to awareness and action.

October 2013 | Nonfiction | 9781937226275 | 173pp | $14.95

CONTRIBUTORS TO WATER BODIES

Aaron A. Abeyta   |   Christi Bode   |   CMarie Fuhrman   |   Sarah Gilman   |   Ruxandra Guidi   |   Maria Lane   |   Chris La Tray   |   Desiree Loggins   |   Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk   |   Michelle Otero   |   Laura Paskus   |   Daniel Rothberg   |   Luke Runyon   |   Kate Schimel   |   Santana Shorty   |   Leanna T. Torres   |   Fatima van Hattum

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAURA PASKUS is a longtime reporter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a senior producer for NMPBS, where she hosts and produces the television show “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future.” Her 2020 book, At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Nature/Environment.

PRAISE FOR WATER BODIES

“A reminder of how personal bodies of water are to those who inhabit and remember them. Breathtaking.”
—FOREWORD REVIEWS

 

“To live in the arid West is to know water as swift and scarce, rebellious and retreating, and essential within and without. In this beautiful anthology, writers, artists, and poets capture the wonder and heartbreak of learning from water in a dry land.”

—MICHELLE NIJHUIS, Beloved Beasts

 

Water Bodies overflows with lovely poetry and prose that gives the reader a visceral sense of what water means in the arid West.”

—JONATHAN P. THOMPSON, Sagebrush Empire

 

“These essays flow and rush and collect in pools of wisdom in a drying climate, reminding us that water is a blessing, and the wellspring of our soul.”

—ELIZABETH HIGHTOWER ALLEN, First & Wildest

 

Water Bodies offers deep insights into how water shapes our lives and nourishes our souls, as well as our bodies—through culture, need, ceremony, refreshment, and sustenance.”

—NANCY GUINN, Bookworks owner

 

“Prepare for tears of sorrow and joy, for these captivating currents of poetry and prose will carry you to the essence of all there is. In this existential moment, Paskus’s moving anthology calls us to embrace water in all its forms–and to savor, and save, all we can.”

—SANDRA POSTEL, Replenish

 

Water Bodies is an exaltation. Each essay implores the reader to recognize that the presence of natural water is as essential to the nurturing of the soul as it is to the physical wellness of living beings.”

—MARA PANICH, Fact & Fiction Books owner

 

“These essays and poems ripple across legacies of the southwestern lands we have shared, for better and for worse, through memories of conflict and mismanagement, connection and protection. This clear-eyed celebration of our most vital life force reveals us to ourselves and embraces a new vision of belonging.”

—RENATA GOLDEN, Mountain Time

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As the leading mission-driven nonprofit publishing house in the Intermountain West, Torrey House Press is proud to publish some of the best environmental writing—and writers! Our work is only possible because of donations from readers like you.

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