JUST RELEASED
WILD
SPECTACLE
Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
Ray repeatedly sets out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. 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. In Ray's worst moments she crosses boundaries to encounter danger and embrace sadness. Wild Spectacle explores our first home, the wild earth, and invites us to question its known and unknown beauties and curiosities.
Please support your favorite indie bookshop.
WILD
SPECTACLE
Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
Ray repeatedly sets out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. 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. In Ray's worst moments she crosses boundaries to encounter danger and embrace sadness. Wild Spectacle explores our first home, the wild earth, and invites us to question its known and unknown beauties and curiosities.
Please support your favorite indie bookshop.
2022
Jan. 4 -- Northwest Illinois Audubon Society, 7 pm CT (email nwilaudubon at gmail.com for a link) Illinois
Jan. 18-20 -- Reporting trip to tour longleaf, North Carolina
Jan. 24 -- Join the Book Club Discussion of Wild Spectacle, Greensleeves of Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia, with Melanie Furr, 7 pm ET (virtual), Georgia
Jan. 26 -- Mainspring Conservation Trust (virtual lecture), Franklin, NC
Jan. 28 -- Western Foundation of Vertebrae Zoology, 6 pm PT (virtual), Southern California
Feb. 11 -- Story and Song Books, 4 pm ET, Fernandina Beach, FL
Feb. 15 -- CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID. American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, Cincinnati, OH
Feb. 19 -- Rural Writing Institute, with Kathryn Aalto (virtual), England
Feb. 21 -- OLLI (virtual), Athens, GA
March 4 -- Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, "Home Grown Honors: Arts & Sciences of Georgia." Abraham Baldwin Ag College, Tifton, GA
March 6 -- March Forth with Drew Lanham & Jonathan Haupt, Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort, SC
March 10 -- Lenten Poetry and Organ Concert, featuring Janisse Ray & organist Andrew Galuska, 11 am. Event open to the public, live-streamed, recorded & archived, Community Church of Vero Beach. Vero Beach, FL
March 12 -- Writing Workshop, Pole Barn, Laura Riding Jackson House (details forthcoming) Vero Beach, FL
March 23-26 -- AWP, Philadelphia, PA
June 12-19 -- Bread Loaf Environmental Conference, with Megan Mayhew Bergman, Middlebury, VT
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BOOK TOUR winter 2021
Oct. 27 -- Book Launch, in conversation with Kathryn Aalto @tupress
Oct. 28 -- The Book Lady, Savannah, GA (in person)
Oct. 30 -- The Porch Collective, Writing Workshop 2-5 pm CDT, Reading 5:30. Sales by The Bookshop, Nashville, TN (in person)
Oct. 31 -- First Presbyterian Church, 4 pm EDT, Hilton Head, SC (in person)
Nov. 1 -- Wild Alabama, in conversation with Bill Finch, Alabama (virtual)
Nov. 2 -- Tombolo Books, in conversation with Jeff Klinkenberg, 6:30 pm EDT, St. Petersburg, FL (virtual)
Nov. 3 -- M. Judson Booksellers, in conversation with Frank Holleman, Greenville, SC (in person)
Nov. 4 -- Georgia Center for the Book, in conversation with Jessica Handler, 7 pm EDT, sales by Charis Books, First Baptist Church of Decatur, Decatur, GA (in person & virtual)
Nov. 6 -- Meet & Greet, Eagle Eye Bookshop, with Trees Atlanta, 2 pm EDT, Decatur, GA (in person)
Nov. 12 -- Malaprop's, with Sami Grover & Danna Smith of Dogwood Alliance, Asheville, NC (virtual)
Nov. 18 -- The Bookshelf, 6-7 pm EST, Thomasville, GA (in person)
Nov. 19 -- The Older Adult Learning Center, 1-3 pm EST, Pennsylvania (virtual)
Nov. 19 -- Apalachicola Margaret Key Library, 5 pm EST, Apalachicola, FL (in person)
Dec. 2 -- University of Georgia, College of Environment + Design Room 130, 4:30 pm, Athens, GA (in person)
Dec. 3 -- Pat Conroy Lit Center, Authors on Air, Facebook LIVE, 4-5 pm EST with Jonathan Haupt, Beaufort, SC (virtual)
Dec. 3 -- Nevermore Books, Night on the Town, 6-8 pm EST, Beaufort, SC (in person)
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, 7 pm EST, Eatonton, GA, (in person)
Dec. 11 -- 31st Annual Mercer Authors Luncheon, 9:30-3 pm EST, Buckhead, Atlanta, GA (in person)
Jan. 18-20 -- Reporting trip to tour longleaf, North Carolina
Jan. 24 -- Join the Book Club Discussion of Wild Spectacle, Greensleeves of Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia, with Melanie Furr, 7 pm ET (virtual), Georgia
Jan. 26 -- Mainspring Conservation Trust (virtual lecture), Franklin, NC
Jan. 28 -- Western Foundation of Vertebrae Zoology, 6 pm PT (virtual), Southern California
Feb. 11 -- Story and Song Books, 4 pm ET, Fernandina Beach, FL
Feb. 15 -- CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID. American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, Cincinnati, OH
Feb. 19 -- Rural Writing Institute, with Kathryn Aalto (virtual), England
Feb. 21 -- OLLI (virtual), Athens, GA
March 4 -- Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, "Home Grown Honors: Arts & Sciences of Georgia." Abraham Baldwin Ag College, Tifton, GA
March 6 -- March Forth with Drew Lanham & Jonathan Haupt, Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort, SC
March 10 -- Lenten Poetry and Organ Concert, featuring Janisse Ray & organist Andrew Galuska, 11 am. Event open to the public, live-streamed, recorded & archived, Community Church of Vero Beach. Vero Beach, FL
March 12 -- Writing Workshop, Pole Barn, Laura Riding Jackson House (details forthcoming) Vero Beach, FL
March 23-26 -- AWP, Philadelphia, PA
June 12-19 -- Bread Loaf Environmental Conference, with Megan Mayhew Bergman, Middlebury, VT
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BOOK TOUR winter 2021
Oct. 27 -- Book Launch, in conversation with Kathryn Aalto @tupress
Oct. 28 -- The Book Lady, Savannah, GA (in person)
Oct. 30 -- The Porch Collective, Writing Workshop 2-5 pm CDT, Reading 5:30. Sales by The Bookshop, Nashville, TN (in person)
Oct. 31 -- First Presbyterian Church, 4 pm EDT, Hilton Head, SC (in person)
Nov. 1 -- Wild Alabama, in conversation with Bill Finch, Alabama (virtual)
Nov. 2 -- Tombolo Books, in conversation with Jeff Klinkenberg, 6:30 pm EDT, St. Petersburg, FL (virtual)
Nov. 3 -- M. Judson Booksellers, in conversation with Frank Holleman, Greenville, SC (in person)
Nov. 4 -- Georgia Center for the Book, in conversation with Jessica Handler, 7 pm EDT, sales by Charis Books, First Baptist Church of Decatur, Decatur, GA (in person & virtual)
Nov. 6 -- Meet & Greet, Eagle Eye Bookshop, with Trees Atlanta, 2 pm EDT, Decatur, GA (in person)
Nov. 12 -- Malaprop's, with Sami Grover & Danna Smith of Dogwood Alliance, Asheville, NC (virtual)
Nov. 18 -- The Bookshelf, 6-7 pm EST, Thomasville, GA (in person)
Nov. 19 -- The Older Adult Learning Center, 1-3 pm EST, Pennsylvania (virtual)
Nov. 19 -- Apalachicola Margaret Key Library, 5 pm EST, Apalachicola, FL (in person)
Dec. 2 -- University of Georgia, College of Environment + Design Room 130, 4:30 pm, Athens, GA (in person)
Dec. 3 -- Pat Conroy Lit Center, Authors on Air, Facebook LIVE, 4-5 pm EST with Jonathan Haupt, Beaufort, SC (virtual)
Dec. 3 -- Nevermore Books, Night on the Town, 6-8 pm EST, Beaufort, SC (in person)
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, 7 pm EST, Eatonton, GA, (in person)
Dec. 11 -- 31st Annual Mercer Authors Luncheon, 9:30-3 pm EST, Buckhead, Atlanta, GA (in person)
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About
Into the Trackless Wild | Janisse Ray is an American writer whose favorite subject is the borderland of nature and culture. Ray has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Awards, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Awards, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award, among others; and has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her eighth, Wild Spectacle, was released October 2021. She lives and works inland from Savannah, Georgia.
PUBLISHED 2021
PRAISE FOR RED LANTERNS
Janisse Ray gently prods us, through the beauty of her imagery and language, to open our eyes to the wonders of the natural world and to our purpose and place in it. This book is nothing short of a great blessing.
--David Bottoms, Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch
With great and rare heart, Red Lanterns sings with soil, grit, and an integrity of vision and practice—I love the poems in this book.
--Thorpe Moeckel, Making a Map of the River
Ray has the rare talent of melding herself with the sounds and motions, the insistent, conflicting mayhem of the life and weather around and within her. Red Lanterns is an evocative and lyrical feast of language indeed.
--Pattiann Rogers, Quickening Fields
Ray says My heart is a culvert in this debut collection of poems—through which internal waters run crystalline, jubilant like a sudden red bloom of cardinal in the dooryard quince, or turbid & fierce in the overflow of storm.
--Sean Sexton, May Darkness Restore
In the glow of Red Lanterns, sicklefin redhorse and river trout shine like raw jewels left, miraculously, to adorn the earth. These poems commune in our shared grievances even as they gather papery red seedpods into wide open hands and offer them up like a heart.
--Amy Wright, Everything in the Universe
