The Sonoran Desert

A Literary Field Guide
Herausgeber: Magrane, Eric; Cokinos, Christopher / Illustrator: Mirocha, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking book that melds art and science, this collection is sure to become the new classic, offering up the next generation of voices of this special place, the Sonoran Desert. More than fifty poets and writers respond to as many species of this stunning desert. Each creative contribution is joined by an illustration and scientific information, creating a new form of Sonoran Desert field guide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780816531233
• ISBN-10: 0816531234
• Artikelnr.: 44142022

Autorenporträt

Eric Magrane is the first poet-in-residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. He has been an artist-in-residence in three national parks and is the founding editor of Spiral Orb, an experiment in permaculture poetics. Magrane is currently completing his PhD in geography at the University of Arizona. Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, and Bodies, of the Holocene. Winner of several national awards, Cokinos teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and is affiliated faculty with the Institute of the Environment. Paul Mirocha is the artist in residence at Tumamoc Hill. Mirocha has illustrated numerous books, including work by Gary Paul Nabhan and Barbara Kingsolver. Mirocha is the winner of multiple awards, including those from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.