Arizona is a land whose natural beauty many have sought to capture in words. Gregory McNamee has combed a body of literature that spans centuries to create this anthology of writings on the widely varied landscapes of Arizona. Named in Stone and Sky includes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; represents Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo authors; and draws on a wide range of sources, from oral literature and mythology to the works of such contemporary authors as Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey, and Barbara Kingsolver ...
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Arizona is a land whose natural beauty many have sought to capture in words. Gregory McNamee has combed a body of literature that spans centuries to create this anthology of writings on the widely varied landscapes of Arizona. Named in Stone and Sky includes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; represents Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo authors; and draws on a wide range of sources, from oral literature and mythology to the works of such contemporary authors as Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey, and Barbara Kingsolver. "The land richly informs the literature of Arizona," observes McNamee. "It underlies the creation stories of the Native American peoples, the inventories of the Spanish conquistadores, the shoot-em-up novels of Zane Grey, the natural histories and romances and poems and romans noirs that Arizonans produce today. The land is the central fact here, the constant that joins the best writing about Arizona from one generation to the next." Named in Stone and Sky collects some of the best of those writings in a celebration of this many-faceted land.Selections from: Edward Abbey Apache tradition Mary Austin Reyner Banham George Blueeyes John Gregory Bourke Charles Bowden E.A. Brininstool Charles O. Brown J. Ross Browne Ross Calvin William Calvin Ralph Cameron Paula Castillo Willa Cather Badger Clark Richard Elman Lawrence Ferlinghetti Francisco Garcas Ray Gonzales Zane Grey John S. Griffin Sharlot Hall Byron Halsted Joy Harjo Havasupai tradition Richard Hinton Hopi tradition Jack Kerouac Barbara Kingsolver Joseph Wood Krutch D.H. Lawrence Aldo Leopold J. William Lloyd Charles Lummis Rita Magdaleno Nancy Mairs Charles McNichols Hank Messick Henry Miller John Mitchell Mojave tradition Felipe Molina N. Scott Momaday Gary Paul Nabhan Navajo tradition Simon Ortiz James Ohio Pattie Joseph Garrison Pearce Charles Phelps Ignaz Pfefferkorn John Wesley Powell Anna Price J.B. Priestly Quechan tradition Alberto Alvaro Rios R.H. Ring M.H. Salmon Rob Schultheis Helen Sekaquaptewa Richard Shelton Georges Simenon Page Stegner Larry Stevens Martha Summerhayes Sue Summers Mary TallMountain Tohono O'odham tradition Agnes Tso John Van Dyke Silvestre Velez de Escalante George Webb Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce
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