The Hopes of Snakes
City Wilds: Essays and Stories About Urban Nature
American Nature Writing, 2000
The Mountain Reader
American Nature Writing 1998
The River Reader
Grrr . . . Poems About Bears
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The Hopes of Snakes
(Beacon Press, 2005)
The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
John A. Murray
”Lisa Couturier’s work at all times is distinguished by its grace, eloquence, and authority. She is one of the very few authors who is actively exploring nature in the humanized landscape, and she is doing this with great felicity and power. Given the fact that the vast majority of Americans experience nature primarily, if only, in the urban context, her work will have immediate, and continuing, relevance to readers of the 21st century. In this brilliant new book, The Hopes of Snakes, Lisa Couturier offers readers a resonant and uplifting meditation upon the natural landscape. The author and her publisher are to be congratulated for producing a book that belongs in any library, public or private, that aspires to be complete on the subject of nature writing. In her mastery of the essay as an expressive form, and in the power and sincerity of her thinking, Lisa Couturier has established herself as the literary equal of such contemporary luminaries as Linda Hogan, Diane Ackerman, and Barbara Kingsolver.”
--John A. Murray, writer and editor, American Nature Writing collections
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