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Erosion: Essays on Undoing | Terry Tempest Williams
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Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved conservationist Terry Tempest Williams is one of our staunchest and most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, a fervent activist, and a skilled and stirring writer, she has spoken to us, and for us, again and again in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of Americas National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In this latest collection of essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She is overwhelmed and exhausted by the current state of American politics, the dire environmental implications of the current administrations choices, and the drought she sees outside her door and feels within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system. Moments of relief and of refuge are found in artand in the very land were losing. In Erosion, a collection of essays written from 2016 through 2018, Williams wrangles with the paradox of the desert lands: That being worn down, broken open, and reshaped as we face our undoing is also the making of who we are becoming.
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AllDebooks
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Soubhiville Love this! 8mo
AllDebooks @Soubhiville me too, just added TTW to my ling list of authors to read 8mo
Deblovestoread 💜💜💜 8mo
dabbe 💙🖤🩵 8mo
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MegCaldwell
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5/5 questions it made me ask: what is to be from somewhere? What does it mean to change? It was so special hearing her read it as well.

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Tomigirl44
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Powerful, insightful, heartbreaking, angering - author talks about the loss of national parks and the impact it‘s having on individuals, politics and educational institutions.

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DyAnne
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“We need not lose hope, we just need to locate where it dwells.”

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BookmarkTavern
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1. My mom says I practically taught myself how to read, and I honestly don‘t have any memories where I don‘t know how.
2. Tagged!

#two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 4y
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And of course found the books in the gift shop! And learned they have authors speaking there!

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Redwritinghood
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This essay collection looks at many erosions - of the self through aging and life trials, of the land, and, mainly, of the American political culture. TTW‘s strength is in the personal essay, and the essays included here are passionate, insightful, and beautifully written. Other pieces were not as strong, but the collection overall was powerful. 4⭐️

BehindthePages What an interesting cover 😯 4y
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Erin01
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Its pie week on the semi final of the great canadian baking show - not as popular as the british original but still fun to watch, I've also got lots of snacks & planning on reading some more of this book later as well

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Erin01
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spending my saturday morning with these ^
I just picked up Erosion at my library yesterday & I'm excited to get started with it + hopeing to finish at least one of these this weekend - I'm about halfway through in at least two of them & don't have much planned this weekend so I think this goal should be achievable 😃📖📚

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"We are eroding and evolving, all at once."

Terry Tempest Williams tackles the theme of erosion and undoing throughout these essays - examining topics of public lands, family, career, belief. There is an underlying tension between connectedness and grief that I've experienced in her writing before.

TW for Trump-led destruction of protected lands, harm to Diné communities, and suicide.

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callielafleur
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Terry Tempest Williams' essay collection When Women Were Birds is such a powerful read. Today she posted the cover for her new collection, coming out in October. I think this cover is gorgeous!

megnews It is gorgeous! Very eye-catching. 5y
kspenmoll It is !!!! 5y
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