The Nature of Desert Nature
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The Nature of Desert Nature

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The Nature of Desert Nature

About this book

In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads.

Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions.

The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places.

Contributors
Thomas M. Antonio
Homero Aridjis
James Aronson
Tessa Bielecki
Alberto BĂșrquez Montijo
Francisco CantĂș
Douglas Christie
Paul Dayton
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Father David Denny
Exequiel Ezcurra
Thomas Lowe Fleischner
Jack Loeffler
Ellen McMahon
Rubén Martínez
Curt Meine
Alberto Mellado Moreno
Paul Mirocha
Gary Paul Nabhan
Ray Perotti
Larry Stevens
Stephen Trimble
Octaviana V. Trujillo
Benjamin T. Wilder
Andy Wilkinson
Ofelia Zepeda
 

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Information

Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780816540280
eBook ISBN
9780816542048
Subtopic
Literary Essays

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. The Nature of Desert Nature: A Deep History of Everything that Sticks, Stinks, Stings, Sings, Swings, Springs, or Clings in Arid Landscapes
  7. NATIVE WAYS OF ENVISIONING DESERTS
  8. Where Wilderness Begins
  9. Heeno
  10. I Commit to Memory the Desert Village, My Family, and My Home
  11. GROWING UP DESERTED
  12. A Sense of Place and a Sense of Self: The Acquisition of Compassion from the ï»żDesert
  13. My Childhood Desert
  14. Reconciling Cooperation vs. Competition Among Desert Creatures
  15. At the Desert’s Edge
  16. DESERT CONTEMPLATIVES
  17. The Insurmountable Darkness of Love
  18. Falling in Love
  19. Encountering Openness
  20. A Hoosier’s Desert
  21. Listening to Our Sibling Deserts: Restoring Indigenous Mindfulness
  22. DESERT AS ATZLÁN AND DIVIDED TURF
  23. Clearly Marked Ghosts
  24. A White Body Out in the Desert
  25. The Desert Dark
  26. ï»żDESERTS SEEN FROM OTHER PLACES
  27. Desert Epiphany
  28. Longing for el Monte
  29. Oriented Southwest
  30. A Thousand Miles from Inhabited Land
  31. Desert City / Ocean Home: Five Offerings of Gratitude
  32. DESERT AS ART / ECOLOGY NEXUS
  33. On the Edge: Listen to Your Plants
  34. Empty and Full | Far and Near | Alone and Together
  35. A Bright and Shining Place
  36. Desert Sonnet
  37. ï»żPostscript. Staring at the Walls: Views of the Desert in Southern Arizona Public Art
  38. Contributors