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OverviewIn 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 '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, Everything That Stings, Clings, or Sings celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gary Paul NabhanPublisher: University of Arizona Press Imprint: University of Arizona Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.395kg ISBN: 9780816540280ISBN 10: 0816540284 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 30 November 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational 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 ContentsAcknowledgments The Nature of Desert Nature: A Deep History of Everything that Sticks, Stinks, Stings, Sings, Swings, Springs, or Clings in Arid Landscapes — Gary Paul Nabhan Native Ways Of Envisioning Deserts Where Wilderness Begins — Ofelia Zepeda Heeno — Alberto Mellado Moreno I Commit to Memory the Desert Village, My Family, and My Home — Octaviana V. Trujillo Growing Up Deserted A Sense of Place and a Sense of Self: The Acquisition of Compassion from the Desert — Paul Dayton My Childhood Desert — Alberto BÚRquez Reconciling Cooperation vs. Competition Among Desert Creatures — Ray Pierotti At the Desert’s Edge — Benjamin T. Wilder Desert Contemplatives The Insurmountable Darkness of Love — Douglas Christie Falling in Love — Tessa Bielecki Encountering Openness — Thomas Lowe Fleischner A Hoosier’s Desert — Father David Denny Listening to Our Sibling Deserts: Restoring Indigenous Mindfulness — Jack Loeffler Desert As Atzlan And Divided Turf Clearly Marked Ghosts — Francisco CantÚ A White Body Out in the Desert — Homero Aridjis The Desert Dark — RubÉN MartÍNez Deserts Seen From Other Places Desert Epiphany — Larry Stevens Longing for el Monte — Exequiel Ezcurra Oriented Southwest — Curt Meine A Thousand Miles from Inhabited Land — James Aronson Desert City / Ocean Home: Five Offerings of Gratitude — Alison Hawthorne Deming Desert As Art / Ecology Nexus On the Edge: Listen to Your Plants — Thomas M. Antonio Empty and Full | Far and Near | Alone and Together — Ellen Macmahon A Bright and Shining Place — Stephen Trimble Desert Sonnet — Andy Wilkinson Postscript. Staring at the Walls: Views of the Desert in Southern Arizona Public Art — Paul Mirocha ContributorsReviewsWe've been slow to warm to deserts as places worth learning and caring about. This original and probing little book, led by one of the pioneers in our understanding of desert ecology and culture, should lay to rest the notion that there isn't much to see (or feel) in these lands of little rain. A bracing and deeply thoughtful collection that should appeal to desert rationalists and romantics everywhere. --Ben A. Minteer, author of The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation The writings in this collection echo, each in their own ways, the surprising declaration made by contributor Paul Mirocha in 'Staring at the Walls, ' an essay on Southern Arizona public art: The desert is succulent--it's downright juicy out there. --Kristine Morris, Foreward Reviews This book is a celebration, an exploration, an accumulation of voices swept up together in a circle of wind, a deployment of all the senses, including the ones you might have forgotten you had. It is magic, science, memory, miracle. If the desert had a seed, a genetic capsule of itself, it would be this book. And you, reader, are the rain that falls, bringing it to life. --Craig Childs, author of Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places It's about time. Who better to tackle the nature of desert, in its fullness, than Gary Nabhan and these contributors. As a desert musician who loves music that credits landscape and place, this book is my textbook for understanding the nature of what moves me to music. --Hal Cannon, author of Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering Mary Austin, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Gary Nabhan--the sonorous voices of Arid America. None more knowledgeable than Nabhan, who here leads a choir of voices in a desert chorale. --J. Baird Callicott, author of Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and Their Importance for Environmental Philosophy We've been slow to warm to deserts as places worth learning and caring about. This original and probing little book, led by one of the pioneers in our understanding of desert ecology and culture, should lay to rest the notion that there isn't much to see (or feel) in these lands of little rain. A bracing and deeply thoughtful collection that should appeal to desert rationalists and romantics everywhere. --Ben A. Minteer, author of The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation Author InformationGary Paul Nabhan is the Kellogg Endowed Chair at the University of Arizona's Southwest Center. He is author or editor of more than thirty books, including Enduring Seeds, Gathering in the Desert, and Food from the Radical Center. Honored with a MacArthur 'Genius' Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, and other awards, Nabhan has lived in the desert for more than forty years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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