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In 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
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
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