The precarious walk : essays from sand & sky /

In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barber, Phyllis, 1943- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Barber, Phyllis, > 1943- Barber, Phyllis, > 1943- > Religion. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Spiritual life. Mormon Church. Life change events. Loss (Psychology) Deserts.

Table of Contents:

Oh, say can you see?
Music in the Mojave
Mt. Charleston on my mind
Love via Johnny
Ode to the Mojave
Great Basin DNA
The desert, waiting
The knife handler
Dancing with the sacred
The art of falling
The precarious walk away from Mormonism
At the cannery
Sweetgrass
Responsibility : the essential gesture
On being quiet
The nested self
The desert, again.