
The Rock Cycle
Essays
Kevin Honold(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-8263-6243-8 (ISBN)
Description
The past is a living thing, palpable as the weather. In this collection of essays, Kevin Honold explores themes of history and its fading significance in modern American life. ""Remembrance is morbid, unprofitable,"" he writes. ""It's impractical, impolite in certain company."" These words remind us that maintaining a sense of the historical past is crucial to maintaining one's humanity in the face of our often dehumanizing political and economic systems. The Rock Cycle delves into memory and into the spaces of history, especially the deserts of the American Southwest. This landscape provides a stage, stripped of all distraction, where a person comes face to face with themselves. With contemplations on religions, philosophies, works of literature, and the land, Honold examines what it means to be oneself within the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-6243-8 (9780826362438)
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Kevin Honold is also the author of Men as Trees Walking. His poetry and essays have appeared in the Hudson Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Antioch Review, Vallum, and Image. He is a veteran of the First Gulf War and a former Peace Corps volunteer and now teaches in Santa Fe, New Mexico.