Desert Cabal
A New Season in the Wilderness
Published on 6. November 2018
978-1-937226-92-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them."
?PAM HOUSTON
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11/2018
Torrey House Press
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AMY IRVINE is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime public lands activist. Her work has been published in Orion, Pacific Standard, High Desert Journal, Climbing, Triquarterly, and other publications. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay "Spectral Light," which appeared in Orion and The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, "Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire" appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays' list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University-in the White Mountains of New England. She lives and writes off the grid in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.
Content
Introduction
Part I. Through a Child's Eyes
1.
- The Only Things to Fear Are Birds Themselves
- One Short of a Parliament
- Nothing to Sneeze At
- A Flicker of Life
- Birders Can't Ride Shotgun
- Chomping at Nature's Bit
- The Birds and the Bees
- The Delightful Horror of Family Birding
- The Grand Titmouse
- Absurd Bird Words
- Sole Recipients of Grace
- Film Fallout
- A Golden Opportunity with a Silver Lining
- Serendipitous Birding
- Please Disturb
- Dutch Blitz Birding
- Flying Through the Bird Portal
- My Chickadee Epiphany
- One of Life's Harrier Moments
- Bearing Through the Birdfeeder Blues
- The Nature of Nature
- Clutch Performance
- Frustration or Fervor
- Just Because
- The Moral of the Mourning Doves
- Never Again…Until Next Time
