Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series) - Hardcover

Fox, William L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874175232 ISBN 13: 9780874175233

Verlag: University of Nevada Press, 2002

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Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century.

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William L. Fox is the author of six nonfiction books on the cultural geography of the American Southwest, more than a dozen books of poetry, and is currently at work on a book about scientific and artistic images of the Antarctic. His poems have appeared in more than 60 magazines and journals, and he edited the West Coast Poetry Review for many years. He is the Western States Arts Federation literature consultant.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874175232
• ISBN 13: 9780874175233
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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