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    <body><![CDATA[We read this powerful book in my reading group..... sadly I got distracted somehow and could not remember the author's name although the subject matter has impacted me greatly in the years since I read it. Williams' name never came back to me until recently when it came up in, of all places, a memor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52624277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  In her typically eloquent plea for love and protection of the American West wilderness, Terry Tempest Williams states, &quot;The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.  They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56631486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I'll admit I've started a love affair with Terry Tempest Williams.  This book found me at the second hand store; I read it, and now I am feverishly scanning the library for every book she's written.  Even if you don't know the desert (myself included), you will fall in love with it because she lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37756821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Red, a Connection of People with Place, September 20, 2001<br/>on Amazon<br/><br/>When Terry Tempest Williams starts this book with her simple equation place + people = politics, you know you've started reading a book meant to have political impact. But as the equation states, and as any TTW read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many of my current and recent paintings have flowing red lines of varying width. My artist friend, Kirsten, keeps asking me what all this red means. I often answer, &quot;Passion!&quot; Yet I realize it means much more. This book is a meditation on the desert in Utah and wilderness. However, it is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39541946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a coherent book like Refuge, instead just a loosely-related group of essays. Most of the essays aren't fully developed either but seem like impressions or journal entries. Although I also consider the red-rock desert to be my home, I didn't understand much of her prose. It seemed like new age pu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34256220">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her poetic portrait of western lands is both moving and haunting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short book of essays and poetic stories seeks to enlighten to and compel us to protect the Red Rock country of southern Utah. While a tad New Agey and poetreacly, there is some good stuff here, especially about being a part of nature rather than outside it. I wonder, though, how Williams reconc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30848692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book by Williams I've read, and as with Refuge, I just adored it. Williams is intimate with the desert and has an uncanny capability of translating it to words. This book is lush, is tempting you to experience the desert as she does. It is also a poignant and passionate plea for p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22689956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Williams is a great writer.  I find her to be cheesy at many points in the novel (is it a novel? book of essays), but when she hits it-she hits it. Although she comes from a mormon background, Williams is not afraid to explore the sexual and sensual aspects of the desert and of the highest a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36548098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Tempest Williams, quite bluntly, is a heroine of mine. I loved Refuge, and--being a Utah desert-lover myself--loved this book just as much. Her passion is palpable, and her arguments in favor of conservation and wilderness are eloquent and beautiful, if not irrefutable (in my opinion).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[William's book is a tribute to Southern Utah where she now resides and also a cry against attacks on wildnerness areas.  I liked some of the essays, especially those that described areas I have visited.  I did feel a commonality with Williams as I share her passion for the redrock country.   ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 19 08:04:26 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I write as though I am whispering in the ear of the one I love&quot; - Terry Tempest Williams<br/><br/>I come back to this book over and over and over again, seeking the wisdom of the dunes, the secrets of the rocks, the heart of the world so eloquently revealed by this brilliant woman write...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Tempest Williams is very poetic in her writing.  It is not the type of book that leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting to read more. Read it when you have time to sit on a rock in the sunshine and think about her wonderful stories of the desert. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Tempest Williams is a poet.  I would call this book an epic prose poem.  I can tell from reading it that she has spent a lot of time in Southern Utah, and I would have to be pretty dense not to understand that she loves it down there.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her writing style is a little &quot;out there&quot;, but it is a collection of short stories, memoirs, and tidbits that encompass what it is to love the desert. Best appreciated when read...in the desert...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will always have a warm and very special place in my heart for Southern Utah.  The depictions she gives in this books seem to come straight out of the hidden hippy part of my heart as well!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a gorgeous lyrical essay. very effective braiding of myth, personal narrative, essay etc. outside of the political issues it raises, it is worth reading for the language alone.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely my favorite book of all time from my favorite author.  If you like nature books and the dessert, you'll love Terry Tempest Williams!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Williams prose is an intricate and simple and the Utah desert itself. It made me nostalgic for a sun warmed slab of rock near a canyon stream.]]></body>
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