Renaming The Earth: Personal Essays (Camino Del Sol),Used

Renaming The Earth: Personal Essays (Camino Del Sol),Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG0816524076
Brand: University of Arizona Press
$17.02 $24.31
Save $7.29
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

In his distinctive and spirited way, Ray Gonzalez, the wellknown essayist, poet, fiction writer, and anthologist, reflects on the American Southwestwhere he was raised and to which he still feels attached (even though he has lived much of his life elsewhere). It is a place that tugs at him, from its arid desert landscapes to its polyglot citiespart Mexican, part Anglo, part something inbetweenalways in the process of redefining themselves.Nowhere does the process of redefinition hit Gonzalez quite as hard as in his native city of El Paso, Texas. There he finds the segregated little town of my childhood transformed into a metropolis of fast Latino zip codes . . . a world where the cell phone, the quick beer, the rented apartment, and the lowpaying job say you can be young and happy on the border. Readers will wonder, along with the author, whether life along the new border is worth the extermination of the old boundaries.But there is another side of the Southwest for this son of the desertthe world of dusty canyons, ponderosa pines, ocotillo, and mesquite. Here, he writes, there is a shadow, and it is called ancient homestructures erased from their seed to grow elsewhere, vultured strings searching for a frame that stands atop history and renames the ground.Rooted in the desert sand and in the banks of the Rio Grande, the muddy river that forms the border between nations, these essays are by turns lyrical, mournful, warm to the ways of the land, and lukewarm to the ways of man.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed