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Hours of the Desert

Hours of the Desert

Doty, Roxanne

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639805192
ISBN13: 9781639805198
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Hours of the Desert, Roxanne Doty leads us through a blind land, from academic conferences to brutal stretches of desert, to downtown Phoenix, where the unhoused dance, share their apples, and bow down in front of traffic. We meet immigrants, scholars, police, policy makers, border patrol agents, a priest, grey wolves and even an angel. In tales conveyed with a deep reverence for the Sonoran Desert-which becomes a living entity in these poems, a witness to struggle, tragedy, and rising urban sprawl-Doty reminds us that beauty has a strangeness, and sadness a dignity. With a clear eye and a steadfast hand, she recounts stories of the dispossessed, and in those tales we see reflections of ourselves and a failed American dream.

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