Climbing Into The Roots]

Saner, Reg.

Harper&Row

Climbing into the roots : [poems]

Poems reveal how we can learn about ourselves, our limitations, and potentials through detailed study of the desert, the mountains, and the past

So This Is the Map (National Poetry)

Random House, Inc.

So This Is the Map

Random House Trade Paperbacks

The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power and describes journeys—both physical and spiritual—to areas of the interior West as remote as they are beautiful. He explores northern New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau, home to the ancient Anasazi culture and the weapons laboratories of Los Alamos. He recalls a long night spent in Chaco Canyon, alone and frightened after sustaining a serious rock-climbing injury. He tells of encounters with magpies and coyotes, botanists and wildlife officials. And he looks down on the multiplying lights of Boulder and realizes that the West he has long known cannot escape being blighted by growth. Saner draws on a lifetime of hiking, climbing, and skiing in the backcountry of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, but the themes and experiences he explores are the opposite of regional. Like the falcons of the title essay—like humans themselves—Saner’s essays are “four-cornered,” not simply for their connection to those famous intersecting borders but because they range so widely over space and time.

The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Bison Books

Essays record the author's reflections on the ruins of the Anasazi civilization, his personal spiritual reactions to them, and the sense of nature and art that can be gained by communing with the pueblo structures and the surrounding desert landscape

Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin's Echo and the Anasazi

History

Americas

Univ of Utah Pr

Essay on air

Essay on Air

Ohio Review

Poems about knowing the world, and man's right relationship to it...

The western United States is a region of astonishing open space which has profoundly shaped the American character. Here Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power. His essays describe journeys--both physical and spiritual--to areas as remote as they are beautiful.

The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene (Kodansha Globe)

Travel

Kodansha USA Inc

Award-winning writer Reg Saner recollects, "Years ago I said that if I had a dozen lives to live, I'd live every one of them in Colorado." Saner first saw the Rocky Mountains in 1962, and since then he has never strayed far, spending his days in Boulder at the foot of the Colorado mesa. The Dawn Collector is a testament to Saner's devotion to his long-time home and its surrounding western landscape. This collection of fourteen thoughtful and meditative essays reveals Saner's love of the outdoors and his deep concern for the American West. Saner explored on foot the wild country of the West, from just beyond his backyard to remote places that most people can only dream about exploring, and recorded his thoughts and insights here. Tiny details such as a ladybug on a dawn yucca or a coyote hunting in snow are illuminated and expanded in Saner's essays as platforms for larger ideas about nature's simultaneously comforting and wildly chaotic character. Saner also explores in his essays how the Rocky Mountains and interior West are enduring landscapes of stark beauty that have witnessed tremendous changes during the past forty years. But Saner's writings are not an activist's call for environmental conservation so much as a thoughtful and stirring reflection on the role of human beings in a vast, powerful, and unpredictable cosmos. Accompanying Saner's writings is a gallery of his colorful photographic images that expands on his musings with a powerful visual document of the majesty and wonder of the landscape of the American West, giving full form to his statement, "That we live in a mystery has always fascinated me."

The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World

Center for American Places

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