{"product_id":"desert-harvest-paperback","title":"A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBruce Berger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eColum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOccupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of \"desert books\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Telling Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThere Was a River\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlmost an Island\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eA Desert Harvest \u003c\/i\u003eis a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America's seemingly desolate terrains.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Berger\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in suburban Chicago. A poet and nonfiction writer, he is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture in desert settings. The first of these, \u003ci\u003eThe Telling Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1990 Western States Book Award and the 1991 Colorado Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSierra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous literary quarterlies; his poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarron's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and various literary reviews in the United States, Scotland, and India, and have been collected in \u003ci\u003eFacing the Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124612305031,"sku":"9781250251121","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/37c18c5acb6d0b954676737f44799424.webp?v=1732571476","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/desert-harvest-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}