Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)

Fox, William L.

ISBN 10: 0874175232 / ISBN 13: 9780874175233

Published by University of Nevada Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874175232
• ISBN 13: 9780874175233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century.

About the Author

William L. Fox is the author of six works of nonfiction exploring the arid regions of the American Southwest. He recently spent a season in the Antarctic as a participant in the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers program, and served as a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute to work in its art and cognition program, and as a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence. He has also published fourteen volumes of poetry and has written for more than seventy magazines and journals.