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Overview"A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play ""The Stars and Stripes Forever"" during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring ""indigenous mindedness"" to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. A Pagan Polemic is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for Nature and Nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jack LoefflerPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780826365170ISBN 10: 0826365175 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPrologue. Rambling Reflections of the Reservoir of Memory 1. Our Window: An Editorial--1972 2. The Practice of Aural History 3. Native Windows into the Natural World 4. Aldo Leopold in the Southwest 5. Averting Dystopia 6. LUCA's Dream 7. Conflicting Ideologies 8. Counterculture in the Land of Clear Light 9. In Praise of Restoration Ecology 10. Nature Abhors a Maximum 11. A Sonoran Illumination 12. Thinking Like a Watershed 13. The Colorado River Compact Is 100 Years Old 14. On Direct Action 15. A Case for Naturist Anarchism 16. Naturizing Consciousness 17. Seeking Coherence 18. Lingering Speculations Conclusion. Invigorating Metamorphosis AcknowledgmentsReviews"""No one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life's work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands."" ""Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years--and we are lucky to have it.""--Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild: Essays" "No one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life's work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands."" ""Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years--and we are lucky to have it.""--Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild: Essays" "No one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life's work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands. Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years--and we are lucky to have it.""—Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild: Essays" Author InformationJack Loeffler is an aural historian, environmentalist, writer, radio producer, and sound-collage artist. He is the author or editor of many books, including Headed into the Wind: A Memoir, Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West, Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews, and Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey (all from UNM Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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