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Tucson in Verse
Paperback
Publisher: Wheatmark
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bonnie Wehle is the best kind of tour guide-if you're a visitor, she will show you where and how to look closely, and if you're a fellow desert dweller, she'll show you how to see the familiar with new eyes. In graceful, evocative poems, we roam the barrios and El Tiradito, we glory in a monsoon storm and a night-blooming cereus, we learn some lessons-for-humans from a mountain lion, turtles, and roadrunners. In 'Desert Sonnet, ' she declares: 'I meet this dry expanse with the wide / heart the landscape asks of me.' That wide heart beats through this wondrous guide to a desert home.
-Meg Files, author of The Beast
Whether tracing the trail to a mountain lion or riding the streetcar on Palm Sunday, we are all travelers on this journey through Tucson's history, landscape, wildlife, and diverse cultures. Bonnie Wehle also writes with passion and precision about her own history in this Southwestern city. These celebratory poems and their accompanying notes are a rich, original and thoroughly enjoyable read.
-Judith Hoyer, author of Imagine That
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