The Nature of Desert Nature

In: Southwest Center Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 ATZLÁN 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 McMahon -- A Bright and Shining Place // Stephen Trimble -- Desert Sonnet // Andy Wilkinson -- Color Plates -- Postscript. Staring at the Walls: Views of the Desert in Southern Arizona Public Art // Paul Mirocha -- Contributors.