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02572aam a2200289 i 4500 001 A838CF745A7311ED954130B23EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221102010026 008 210910s2022 utu e 000 0aeng c 010 $a 2019041552 020 $a 1948814595 020 $a 9781948814591 035 $a (OCoLC)1267687824 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d PX0 $d OCLCO $d CPL $d OCLCF $d UBY $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Barber, Phyllis, $d 1943- $e author. 245 14 $a The precarious walk : $b essays from sand & sky / $c Phyllis Barber. 246 3 $a Precarious walk : $b essays from sand and sky 250 $a First Torrey House Press edition. 264 1 $a Salt Lake City : $b Torrey House Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 227 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Autobiographical essays. 505 00 $t The desert, again. $t Music in the Mojave -- $t Mt. Charleston on my mind -- $t Love via Johnny -- $t Ode to the Mojave -- $t Great Basin DNA -- $t The desert, waiting -- $t The knife handler -- $t Dancing with the sacred -- $t The art of falling -- $t The precarious walk away from Mormonism -- $t At the cannery -- $t Sweetgrass -- $t Responsibility : the essential gesture -- $t On being quiet -- $t The nested self -- $t The desert, again. 520 $a 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 roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave Desert, she witnesses the massive power of the Hoover Dam and a fiery rip in the sky from the Nevada Test Site. As an adult, Barber searches for meaning through music, movement, and human connection, examining her Mormon upbringing, the profound ways people and landscape impact one another, and the sudden loss of her first child with open-ended honesty. Barber's distinctly feminine voice expands upon the literature of the West alongside Ellen Meloy and Terry Tempest Williams, with seeking and questioning at the heart of this deeply felt collection. In the spirit of Flannery O'Connor and David James Duncan, Barber adds a deeply generous and--true to her high-desert roots--down-to-earth voice to the illumination of human experience. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221102010500.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A838CF745A7311ED954130B23EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search