Author: Karin Anderson
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1948814439
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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"Danielle Beazer Dubrasky and Karin Anderson are expert guides to this territory. Let them and this book bring you home." —Joanna Brooks Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by writers who are faithful, non–faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de–converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter–day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges readers to examine the myriad ways deeply rooted heritage shapes personal relationship with landscape.
Author: George B. Handley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040102794
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology. This book argues that in our postsecular age, literature has become an important repository of theological wisdom that can, like formal work in ecotheology, provide the moral grounds for environmental care. However, for any cosmological understanding to be adequate to the challenges before us, it must be responsive to the often-painful contingencies and uncertainties that inhere in the cosmos, something that both ecocriticism and ecotheology have often neglected. After a treatment of the ecocritical and ecotheological questions that pertain to the religious/secular divide, the study then turns to four contemporary American writers—Annie Dillard, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, and David James Duncan—as examples. Each uses the contingency of literary form and its promise of wholeness in order to imagine reasons for hope in light of the unpredictability and untold human and more-than-human suffering that lie at the heart of nature. The book will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers interested in ecotheology, religious studies, environmental literature, the environmental humanities, and environmental studies more broadly. It offers a needed paradigm shift in how Western societies have tended to misuse both secularity and religion.
Author: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1948814862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he’s sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple’s search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.
Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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An account of the author's existence, observations and reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah
Author: Karin Anderson
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1948814048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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"This masterwork flouts expectations." —FOREWORD REVIEWS, starred review Before Us Like a Land of Dreams follows a disheartened mother traveling an evocative route through the arid West. As her narration fades, the ancestral dead speak directly: a ragged Mormon boy yearns after a Shoshone family. A defeated polygamous wife shuts her mouth for good. A hoarder's queer son demolishes the artifacts of his lonely Idaho childhood. Descendants of British squatters sustain family delusions until a devastating suicide shatters their royal dreams. An elite colonial clan gradually awakens to the stark blue of the Great Salt Lake. The dead yield no answers, but they conjure vivid mortal moments set in iconic—and diminishing—American places. KARIN ANDERSON is a gardener, writer, mother, wanderer, heretic, and English professor. She hails from the Great Basin of Utah.
Author: Sarah Northcutt Harvan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411606051
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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A Metaphysical Odyssey:The True Story of a Thunderbird Medicine Woman.It is the story of Grandfather, Little Hawk and Desert Wolf. It is a true story of romantic passion, drama,adventure, learning, and mystery. It is a story for all ages.Grandfather Thundering Elk says, " A good story, upon hearing it, has the ability to heal..."
Author: John A. Murray
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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America's red rock desert is a place unlike any other -- such a marvelous fusion of form and color -- and Another Country is a correspondingly unique song of praise. Pairing fifteen essays with fifteen short stories, acclaimed writer John A. Murray takes you deep into this wonderland, one of the most remarkable regions on Earth. The territory Murray celebrates is a vast triangle in the heart of the Colorado Plateau, a region embracing slickrock canyons, blue mesas, snow-capped peaks and the world's greatest concentration of national parks and monuments.
Author: Pauline Mead Patraw
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: Sherel Goodrich
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
ISBN: 9780911408737
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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