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Coming Alive: Action & Civil Disobedience (Call-To-Action Essay Series Book 1)

Coming Alive: Action & Civil Disobedience (Call-To-Action Essay Series Book 1)

Paul K. Anderson
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In Coming Alive Taylor Brorby overcomes his trepidations and embraces the most powerful action of all—standing by his words. He commits to what he values most—family, home, the arts, the earth—and becomes a role-model for how we can all learn to take a stand.

With an introduction by Bill McKibben, an afterword by Kathleen Dean Moore, and photography by Paul Anderson, Coming Alive is an intimate account of place and community: flares in North Dakota, pipeline protests, and the value of local action. Coming Alive explores the wisdom in the phrase: A thousand mile journey starts with the first step. Taylor Brorby reveals a way to hope during uncertain times.

“Environmental writing is often beautiful and moral, but rarely is it as honest as this. Kentucky farmers have Wendell Berry; North Dakota roustabouts have Taylor Brorby.” —Jeffrey Lockwood, author of Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech

“Taylor Brorby has been as tireless as anyone I know in his fight to protect the planet in general, and his beloved high plains of North Dakota in particular. This account of his visits to the Bakken oil fields and to Standing Rock, his acts of resistance and subsequent arrest, is a powerful call to action, a primal scream of anguish and love for the original mother we must now link arms to protect.”—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

“Taylor Brorby’s love for his North Dakota homeland resonates in this report from the field of the Standing Rock resistance to the DAPL. As a native son of the land, he speaks with the authority of the heart about protecting the land, the water and the very notion of a sustainable future. He is an important voice in the rising of a new generation dedicated to justice and sustainability.”—Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Stairway to Heaven

Taylor Brorby is an award-winning essayist, and a poet. A fellow at the Black Earth Institute, Taylor’s work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Orion, High Country News, The Huffington Post, Terrain.org, and has received numerous recognitions through grants and artist residencies. Taylor travels around the country regularly to speak about hydraulic fracking, is a co-editor of the country’s first anthology of creative writing about fracking, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, and is Reviews Editor at Orion Magazine. His poetry collection, Crude, is coming out in the spring of 2017.

An intimate account of place and community: flares in North Dakota, pipeline protests, and the value of local. One may be tempted to assume this is just another person railing against the “system,” but it is not. Coming Alive reveals the wisdom in the phrase: A thousand mile journey starts with the first step. Taylor Brorby reveals a way to hope during uncertain times.
Language
English
Pages
43
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ice Cube Press. LLC
Release
January 18, 2017

Coming Alive: Action & Civil Disobedience (Call-To-Action Essay Series Book 1)

Paul K. Anderson
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In Coming Alive Taylor Brorby overcomes his trepidations and embraces the most powerful action of all—standing by his words. He commits to what he values most—family, home, the arts, the earth—and becomes a role-model for how we can all learn to take a stand.

With an introduction by Bill McKibben, an afterword by Kathleen Dean Moore, and photography by Paul Anderson, Coming Alive is an intimate account of place and community: flares in North Dakota, pipeline protests, and the value of local action. Coming Alive explores the wisdom in the phrase: A thousand mile journey starts with the first step. Taylor Brorby reveals a way to hope during uncertain times.

“Environmental writing is often beautiful and moral, but rarely is it as honest as this. Kentucky farmers have Wendell Berry; North Dakota roustabouts have Taylor Brorby.” —Jeffrey Lockwood, author of Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech

“Taylor Brorby has been as tireless as anyone I know in his fight to protect the planet in general, and his beloved high plains of North Dakota in particular. This account of his visits to the Bakken oil fields and to Standing Rock, his acts of resistance and subsequent arrest, is a powerful call to action, a primal scream of anguish and love for the original mother we must now link arms to protect.”—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

“Taylor Brorby’s love for his North Dakota homeland resonates in this report from the field of the Standing Rock resistance to the DAPL. As a native son of the land, he speaks with the authority of the heart about protecting the land, the water and the very notion of a sustainable future. He is an important voice in the rising of a new generation dedicated to justice and sustainability.”—Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Stairway to Heaven

Taylor Brorby is an award-winning essayist, and a poet. A fellow at the Black Earth Institute, Taylor’s work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Orion, High Country News, The Huffington Post, Terrain.org, and has received numerous recognitions through grants and artist residencies. Taylor travels around the country regularly to speak about hydraulic fracking, is a co-editor of the country’s first anthology of creative writing about fracking, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, and is Reviews Editor at Orion Magazine. His poetry collection, Crude, is coming out in the spring of 2017.

An intimate account of place and community: flares in North Dakota, pipeline protests, and the value of local. One may be tempted to assume this is just another person railing against the “system,” but it is not. Coming Alive reveals the wisdom in the phrase: A thousand mile journey starts with the first step. Taylor Brorby reveals a way to hope during uncertain times.
Language
English
Pages
43
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ice Cube Press. LLC
Release
January 18, 2017

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