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New Natives: Becoming Indigenous in a Time of Crisis & Transition is a stirring call to reconnect with the land, community, and each other in an era of environmental upheaval. Award-winning poet and activist Thomas Rain Crowe blends memoir, cultural history, and passionate advocacy to explore how we can ""reinhabit"" our places-living in harmony with nature and drawing on the wisdom of those who have stewarded the Earth for generations. Set against the lush backdrop of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Crowe's essays weave together personal stories, Indigenous perspectives, and urgent reflections on climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable living. He invites readers to imagine a future where diversity-of species, cultures, and communities-is not just preserved but celebrated as essential to survival. Complemented by Simone Lipscomb's evocative photography, New Natives is both a love letter to the natural world and a manifesto for a new way of being. From the philosophy of bioregionalism to the everyday beauty of rivers, forests, and wildlife, this book offers practical inspiration for anyone longing to live more consciously and courageously in the place they call home. For readers of Wendell Berry, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and E.O. Wilson, this is a work that will awaken your sense of belonging-to the land, to your neighbors, and to the greater Earth community. Whether you are an environmentalist, a lover of nature writing, or simply seeking a more rooted life, New Natives offers vision, guidance, and hope.

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Thomas Rain Crowe's poetry and essays in New Natives: Becoming Indigenous in a Time of Crisis & Transition has taken to heart Gary Snyder's words to him to do ""the wild work."" Do it and write it. And live it. Crowe quotes Thoreau: ""All good things are wild and free"" and shows what that means to him: ""It's not the money, it's the wilderness that turns me on."" Crowe seems to have a natural and wild built-in facility for the perfect rhyme. The ending of a story about going up a dirt road dug by hand: ""From what the hell these eyes have seen: the subtle passing of the green,"" lines worthy of Blake or John Clare. His writing takes us back, way back, where we need to go, like Snyder says of it, the wild work, to love work when ""work and play are one."" -Joe Napora, author of The Walam Olum Presented in compelling prose and poetry, in which author Thomas Rain Crowe articulates hard-won wisdom regarding how we humans might live humbly in harmony with the natural and cultural history of our given or chosen place on Earth, New Natives serves as a sort of guidebook. Along with inspired images in this book contributed by photographer Simone Lipscomb, New Natives will be of considerable value to readers, as they may find a place in which they will be-feeling whole and free-like new natives. -Ted Olson, author of Blue Moon

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Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally-published and recognized author, editor and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist (2008); an internationally acclaimed anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets entitled Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) and his collection of poetry The Laugharne Poems written at the Dylan Thomas boathouse in Laugharne, Wales in 1993 and 1995. He has translated two volumes of the Sufi poet Hafiz-In Wineseller's Street (Iran Books) and Drunk On the Wine of the Beloved (Shambhala Press). He has belonged to and worked with several environmental organizations, has been an editor of major literary and cultural journals and anthologies and is founder and publisher of New Native Press (www.newnativepress.org). He lived in San Francisco during the 1970s working alongside all the people cited in his most recent book Starting From San Francisco: Beats, Baby Beats & The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance and was an original member of the group responsible for the resurrection of Beatitude magazine during those years as well as working with various bioregional groups in northern California. He is a longtime resident of the Southern Appalachians and lives in the Tuckasegee watershed and the ""Little Canada"" community of Jackson County in western North Carolina, USA. His archives are collected and housed at the Special Collections Library at Duke University. Simone Lipscomb has photographed nature for 47 years. She has been a creative writer since fourth grade where her imaginative stories earned a place on the teacher's A+++ wall.She documented the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill for a year, choosing seven areas of public land to follow from before, during, and after the disaster.Simone has photographed humpback whales, dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, and other friends of the ocean. She has a deep love for wild places and wild life.Several books of her photography and prose have been published. She has included children in her efforts of environmental education, with three of her eleven books produced especially for kids.An active short-essay writer, Simone produces regular essays with her nature photographs. She also produces videos focused on nature and environmental education.Simone is a musician playing piano, djembee, frame drums, native flutes, and Celtic whistles. She often pairs her music with videos she produces.You can follow her on her website at: SimoneLipscomb.com and her YouTube channel @SimoneLipscomb.She's an avid hiker in the Smoky Mountains, as well as a fly fisher. Simone always seeks the energetic connection to all life as a way to inform her path.

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