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03437aam a22004938i 4500 001 915DB4723FDD11E9A7F5176897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190306010018 008 181018s2019 cau 000 0 eng c 010 $a 2018041022 020 $a 1640092218 020 $a 9781640092211 035 $a (OCoLC)1049794106 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Lessard, Suzannah, $e author. 245 14 $a The absent hand : $b reimagining our American landscape / $c Suzannah Lessard. 250 $a First hardcover edition. 263 $a 1912 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Counterpoint, $c 2019. 300 $a pages cm 505 0 $a In the village -- Suburbophobia -- Gettysburg -- Natchez -- Truth or Consequences -- Flight -- The view from a small mountain -- The pumpkins of Bergen Street -- The market -- Youngstown -- The pendulum -- Fresh kills -- The corporation in the woods -- Atopia -- Whose hand? -- The inverted cradle. 520 $a "Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald and others of Rebecca Solnit, but it is Lessard's singular talent to combine this profound book-length mosaic 'a blend of historical travelogue, architectural tour, philosophical meditation, and prose poem' into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. The Absent Hand begins by observing the residual places from our country's first European settlements, and continues to the life of our cities and their eventual overflow into suburbs and wildernesses. Yet Lessard is always joining us to discuss the effects of "enclosure," of how we manage to live on and in the land, how we surround ourselves on the land with stories, roads, buildings, and ideas. Whether it's climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the global enclosure is panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lessard, Suzannah $x Travel. 650 0 $a Landscape assessment $z United States. 650 0 $a Landscape changes $z United States. 650 0 $a Geographical perception $z United States. 650 0 $a Travelers' writings, American. 650 7 $a Geographical perception. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00940459 650 7 $a Landscape assessment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00991858 650 7 $a Landscape changes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00991873 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 650 7 $a Travelers' writings, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155721 651 0 $a United States $x Description and travel. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 5 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611012821.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909052921.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529015407.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190702012528.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20190306011046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=915DB4723FDD11E9A7F5176897128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search