What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)
This volume, brought together around the theme of how women experience the Southwest, gathers new and previously published works by such well-known writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The nearly 100 poems and essays chronicle a variety of encounters with the Southwest, from hiking, camping, and eating to, in a sharp departure, Nancy Mairs' eloquent report on the unforgiving landscape's difficulties for the wheelchair-bound. Accounts of inner discovery take precedence over the beauty of natural vistas, but all the pieces share a feeling of awe and a sense of female empowerment.Colleen MondorCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved