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Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000 (Western Literature Series)
William L. Fox
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Description for Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000 (Western Literature Series)
Paperback. The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers. In this collection William L. Fox captures the essence of the Great Basin desert - its daunting emptiness, the passage of light and wind across its surfaces, its colours and textures, and its silence. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 163.
The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers, but few have met the challenge as successfully as William L. Fox. In Reading Sand, Fox's elegant minimalist poems capture the essence of the Great Basin desert-its daunting emptiness, the passage of light and wind across its surfaces, its colors and textures, its silence. In ""perforated object,"" the collection's central piece, Fox uses a mysterious pierced-horn artifact discovered in Nevada's Humboldt Cave as the subject of an extended meditation on the nature of history and the absolute inscrutability of the Great Basin's complex past. ... Read more
The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers, but few have met the challenge as successfully as William L. Fox. In Reading Sand, Fox's elegant minimalist poems capture the essence of the Great Basin desert-its daunting emptiness, the passage of light and wind across its surfaces, its colors and textures, its silence. In ""perforated object,"" the collection's central piece, Fox uses a mysterious pierced-horn artifact discovered in Nevada's Humboldt Cave as the subject of an extended meditation on the nature of history and the absolute inscrutability of the Great Basin's complex past. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874174984
SKU
V9780874174984
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About William L. Fox
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000 (Western Literature Series)
"Reading Sand is a beautifully spare, minimal, and serially progressive sequence of poems...Fox's poetry forces the reader to pause, to re-engage with the spare essentials of existence, and to rebuild a tentious yet miraculous vision of the world." -Arthur Sze "Fox has invented a form equal to his subject, a form both radically austere and musical, a form more compelling, ... Read more