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A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays

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by Bruce Berger
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bruce Berger, Colum McCann (Introduction by)Publish date:2020-03-17Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250251121ISBN-10:1250251125UPC:9781250251121Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & Habitats, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:DesertsSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCVF9MVXK0

A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert

Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of "desert books"--The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island--A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice.

Wasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America's seemingly desolate terrains.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250251121ISBN-10:1250251125UPC:9781250251121Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & Habitats, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:DesertsSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCVF9MVXK0
Bruce Berger grew up in suburban Chicago. A poet and nonfiction writer, he is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture in desert settings. The first of these, The Telling Distance, won the 1990 Western States Book Award and the 1991 Colorado Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Sierra, Orion Magazine, Gramophone, and numerous literary quarterlies; his poems have appeared in Poetry, Barron's, Orion Magazine, and various literary reviews in the United States, Scotland, and India, and have been collected in Facing the Music.
Publisher: Picador USA

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Bruce Berger, Colum McCann (Introduction by)

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Bruce Berger

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