TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richman,Jana
TI  - Finding stillness in a noisy world
SN  - 9781607816270
AV  - PS3618.I348 A6 2018
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Salt Lake City
PB  - The University of Utah Press
KW  - Richman, Jana,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Open spaces
KW  - Quietude
KW  - Écrivains américains
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Espaces verts
KW  - Tranquillité
KW  - open spaces
KW  - aat
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Families
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Travel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The land of no use -- A desert beyond fear -- Stay -- On walking -- The curling fingers of the hatch women -- Affordable care -- Protected space -- Catching up on my reading -- Wild thoughts -- The human intrusion -- The monsoonal flow of kindness -- The sharp points -- Moving water -- Dirt fantasies -- Dark love
N2  - "Moving through the settings of her life red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and profoundly universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on the questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace when the last quiet places are sacrificed to human hubris? How do we shed the angst thrust upon us to create lives of peace? In these wide-ranging personal essays, Richman travels interior roads through fear, kindness, ignorance, darkness, wildness, compassion, solitude, loneliness, and more always asking how external geography informs our internal geography. From the monsoonal rains in the carved slot canyons of the Escalante to the eroticism of dirt on skin in a remote slice of the Grand Canyon; from the defiance of academic authority to the curled, arthritic fingers of her mother and grandmothers, Richman sinks into the realities that make us human and fallible and blessed. Inspired by masters of the traditional personal essay such as E.B. White and M.F.K. Fisher, Richman adds a unique, deeply intimate and often humorous voice to the concurrence of human experience. Like a desert stream, human meaning meanders before coming to rest. Richman's authentic voice illuminates the place where internal and external landscapes merge into meaning. Time with these genuine, inclusive pieces is time well spent"--Provided by publisher
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