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Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Anne-Marie Oomen; Teresa J. Scollon; Alison Swan; Stephanie Mills; Benjamin Busch; Marcia Aldrich; Jerry Dennis; Jessica Mesman; Jaimien Delp; Kathleen McGookey; Fleda Brown; Toi Derricotte; Michael Steinberg; Robert Root; Keith Taylor; Anne-Marie Oomen; Rhoda Janzen; Mardi Jo Link; Davy Rothbart; Rochelle Riley; Airea D Matthews; Ari L. Mokdad; W. S. Penn; Jacob Wheeler; Holly Wren Spaulding is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan's most well-known essayists. A celebration of the elements, this collection is both the storm and the shelter. In her introduction, editor Anne-Marie Oomen recalls the "ritual dousing" of her storytelling group's bonfire: "wind, earth, fire, water - all of it simultaneous in that one gesture... In that moment we are bound together with these elements and with this place, the circle around the fire on the shores of a Great Lake closes, complete." The essays approach Michigan at the atomic level. This is a place where weather patterns and ecology matter. Farmers, miners, shippers, and loggers have built (or lost) their livelihood on Michigan's nature - what could and could not be made out of our elements. From freshwater lakes that have shaped the ground beneath our feet to the industrial ebb and flow of iron ore and wind power - ours is a state of survival and transformation. In the first section of the book, "Earth," Jerry Dennis remembers working construction in northern Michigan. "Water" includes a piece from Jessica Mesman, who writes of the appearance of snow in different iteratio

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Author

Anne-Marie Oomen; Teresa J. Scollon; Alison Swan; Stephanie Mills; Benjamin Busch; Marcia Aldrich; Jerry Dennis; Jessica Mesman; Jaimien Delp; Kathleen McGookey; Fleda Brown; Toi Derricotte; Michael Steinberg; Robert Root; Keith Taylor; Anne-Marie Oomen; Rhoda Janzen; Mardi Jo Link; Davy Rothbart; Rochelle Riley; Airea D Matthews; Ari L. Mokdad; W. S. Penn; Jacob Wheeler; Holly Wren Spaulding

Publisher

Wayne State University Press Project MUSE

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814345689

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Music, History, Fiction

Rating

4.8 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14