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Finding stillness in a noisy world
- Title
- Finding stillness in a noisy world / Jana Richman.
- Author
- Richman, Jana, 1956-
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 117 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3794
- ISBN
- 9781607816263
- 1607816261
- LCCN
- 2017060285
- 40028318627
- OCLC
- 1018080431
- Author
- Richman, Jana, 1956- author.
- Title
- Finding stillness in a noisy world / Jana Richman.
- Publisher
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Richman, Jana, 1956- Finding stillness in a noisy world. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018] 9781607816270 (DLC) 2017061596
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028318627
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3794