It was also chosen for the "All Georgia Reading the Same Book" project by the Georgia Center for the Book. The book won an American Book Award, Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. The book interweaves family history and memoir with natural history writing-specifically, descriptions of the ecology of the vanishing longleaf pine forests that once blanketed the Southern coastal plains.
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Her first book, ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD, recounts her experiences growing up in a junkyard, the daughter of a poor, white, fundamentalist Christian family. Ray has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia Writer's Association. Ray won a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for her essay "The Lonely Ruralist," published in GEORGIA REVIEW. Jordan Prize in Literary Excellence, which carries a 10K award. Her book WILD SPECTACLE was chosen by Pam Houston for the Donald L. Is an award-winning and beloved American writer of nonfiction and poetry. Wild Spectacle explores our first home, the wild earth, and invites us to question its known and unknown beauties and curiosities. She questions what it means to travel into the wild as a woman, speculates on the impacts of ecotourism and travel in general, questions assumptions about eating from the land, and appeals to future generations to make substantive change. In an age of increasingly virtual, urban life, Ray embraces the intentionality of trying to be a better person balanced with seeking out natural spectacle, abundance, and less trammeled environments. She craves a wilder world and documents encounters that are rare in a time of disappearing habitat, declining biodiversity, and a world too slowly coming to terms with climate change. One of her abiding griefs is that she has missed the sights of explorers like Bartram, Sacagawea, and Carver: flocks of passenger pigeons, routes of wolves, herds of bison.
In Ray's worst moments she crosses boundaries to encounter danger and embrace sadness.Īnchored firmly in two places Ray has called home-Montana and southern Georgia-the sixteen essays here span a landscape from Alaska to Central America, connecting common elements in the ecosystems of people and place. From overwintering with monarch butterflies in Mexico to counting birds in Belize, the stories in Wild Spectacle capture her luckiest moments-ones of heart-pounding amazement, discovery of romance, and moving toward living more wisely. Looking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us.
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