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A collection of brief essays, written over a number of years, describe the author's personal journey of transformation after leaving a marriage and home in the East to live on a ranch in Arizona. No scholarly trappings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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出版社周刊评论
These evocative essays by poet and short-story writer Coleman ( Stories from Mesa County ) cover her personal journey during the years she explored the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona before she settled permanently in Cochise County. (The time-frame is indeterminate; the author notes merely that these pieces were written over a number of years.) Captivated by the land's vastness and beauty, Coleman researched the lives of men and women who settled the Southwest, and she made friends with several aging pioneers; she here records the influence of their recollections on her life. Familiarizing herself with Southwestern wildlife and vegetation, she assisted in cattle round-ups and learned to endure long hours on horseback. Coleman's experiences led to her awareness of her emotional and physical strength, enabling her to end an oppressive marriage. This graceful collection combines observant travel writing and history with a chronicle of personal growth. Illustrations. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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An elliptically told journey to selfhood through a landscape of transcendent beauty, lyrically evoked by a recipient of two Western Heritage Awards for her writing. In loosely sequential but self-contained essays, Coleman (Stories from Mesa Country, 1991, etc.) describes how early visits to the Southwest--where she ``set out to learn the people, the mysteries, with the unwitting help of an old man, Archie, grandson of pioneer settlers''--would ultimately change her life. There, the author ``forged a bond'' with this old man in a place where ``the mountains turned crimson in the twilight and the months of summer shimmered in the sun.'' Every year she returned with her family ``to its people, its horses, its clear beauty high in the mountains loved above all others; the place that for six years and in the absence of another, I called home.'' Coleman participated fully in the life there: rounding up cattle from mountain pastures, helping brand them, and driving trucks. Later, when her marriage broke up, she acknowledged that she'd become ``an uncomprehending victim of psychological and verbal abuse'' who'd nonetheless ``managed to preserve the core of self'' where she existed. She walked out of her house, pointed her car toward the West, and--with grants to research the life of Mattie Earp, second wife of Wyatt--traveled through the small towns of the region, then rented `` `Rancho Milagro,' Miracle Ranch'' in Arizona--a ``place that is the essence of timelessness.'' But the author's journey reached its apogee on the desolate ranch she finally bought, a ``place of instant recognition.'' There, she settled, ``put down roots, planted trees and a garden,'' and wrote ``the words that demand release.'' At times mannered but redeemed by Coleman's fierce--and eloquently expressed--love for a place of austere beauty and the ``thunderous presence of the natural world.''