Finding beauty in a broken world
(Book, Non-circulating Book)
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New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
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419 pages ; 25 cm.
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Location | Format | Call Number | Status |
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Moab Library - Locked Cabinet | Non-circulating Book | 814 WILLIAMS | On Shelf |
Castle Valley Library - Castle Valley Local Interest | Book | CV 814 WIL | On Shelf |
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book | Book | 814 WILLIAMS | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Format
Book, Non-circulating Book
Street Date
0810
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where "jeweled ceilings became lavish tales" through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing. A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking that which is broken and creating something whole.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Williams, T. T. (2008). Finding beauty in a broken world . Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, Terry Tempest. 2008. Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty in a Broken World Pantheon Books, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty in a Broken World Pantheon Books, 2008.
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