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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



The Hopes of Snakes
(Beacon Press, 2005)
The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape

Lorraine Anderson
”Lisa Couturier writes with grace and heart about the wild animals that share the most densely populated human habitats with us. Following the instincts of a woman's body in these matters, she teaches us to see the worth and beauty of creatures that are commonly despised, feared, or ignored. It's impossible to read this book without gaining a new appreciation of the interrelationships that infuse the most degraded of landscapes. ”

--Lorraine Anderson, writer, and editor of Sisters of the Earth