Research Catalog

Title

Quench your thirst with salt / essays by Nicole Walker.

Author

Walker, Nicole

Publication

Clarksville, Tennessee : Zone 3 Press, [2013]

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 138 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique, but finally about all that is unquenchable in the human experience, Nicole Walker has created a book that is truly sui generis. By turns wry, elegiac, and always elegant in its precision and force, Walker investigates all that is contradictory and curious in the micro climate of her immediate family and the macro climate of Utah to create not a dry treatise, not a windless flight of experimental prose, but a natural history of thirst in all its manifestations, at once compulsively readable and intensely personal"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Walker, Nicole > Childhood and youth
• Walker, Nicole > Family
• Walker, Nicole > Homes and haunts > Utah
• Natural history > Utah
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Utah
• Human ecology > Utah
• Water > Social aspects
• Thirst > Social aspects
• Women authors, American > Biography
• Utah > Environmental conditions

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fish -- Superfluidity -- Filtered Water -- Thistle Landslide -- Slip -- The Weight of a Bird -- Easy -- Transubstantiation -- 10,000 Deserted Lakes -- Hard Water -- Dam -- Skin of the Earth -- Shift Your Scale -- Change -- Where the Wild Things Are.

ISBN

• 9780978612771
• 0978612779

LCCN

^^2013022774

OCLC

• 841898787
• SCSB-12368574

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library