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Red Rock Stories

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Writer–activists deliver passionate poetry and prose championing America's imperiled red rock wilderness: sacred landscapes that inspire and nurture us all.
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"Essays and poems that run as deep as the canyons of the Colorado River."
—ROBERT REDFORD

Red Rock Stories conveys spiritual and cultural values of Utah's canyon country
through essays and poems of writers whose births span seven decades. First delivered to decision makers in Washington as a limited–edition chapbook, this art–as–advocacy book explores the fierce beauty of and the dangers to ecological and archaeological integrity in this politically embattled corner of wild America.

"In the American Southwest, we dwell in one end of the visible spectrum. Passions or furies, we see it all in shades of red." —Amy Irvine

Red Rock Stories features three generations of writers from diverse cultures. Young activists and regional leaders fill the pages with heartfelt testimonies for the red rock wilderness. Notable contributors range from acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams and Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation Luci Tapahonso, to Charles Wilkinson of the University of Colorado Law School and Regina Lopez–Whiteskunk of the Ute Mountain Ute Council.

STEPHEN TRIMBLE, editor of Red Rock Stories, has published more than twenty books. He received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation and a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellowship at the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center. In 1995, Trimble co–compiled with Terry Tempest Williams the landmark book of advocacy, Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness—the model for Red Rock Testimony. He teaches writing in the University of Utah Honors College and makes his home in Salt Lake City and in Torrey, Utah.
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Price: $21.95
Pages: 222
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Imprint: Torrey House Press
Publication Date: 04 July 2017
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.38 in
ISBN: 9781937226794
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Regional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

"Evocative and compelling."
NATIONAL PARKS TRAVELER

"The book's contributors are writers from different backgrounds, races and generations who all agree on the spiritual, cultural and scientific importance of protecting the proposed Bears Ears National Monument."
SALT LAKE MAGAZINE

"Utah has been my home for over half a century. Native Americans have inhabited these landscapes since time immemorial. The writers in Red Rock Stories capture that connection in essays and poems that run as deep as the canyons of the Colorado River."
—ROBERT REDFORD, actor, director, environmentalist

"In voices as rich and varied as the land itself, Red Rock Stories converges upon a vision for a relationship with the living land which is both ancient and urgent, a healing vision where the land and the people are linked by mutual responsibility."
—ROBIN WALL KIMMERER, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

"If you haven't been there, these words will take you. If you have, drink these stories, poems, remembrances, essays like rain from a water pocket and remember."
—CRAIG CHILDS, author of Virga & Bone

"There is no more foundational element of democracy than shared public lands. Whatever we can do to defend them, we must, and then more. In conversation, in thought, in deed, our voices must rise—in good and necessary efforts like Red Rock Stories."
—RICK BASS, author of For a Little While

"Whether speaking of us Millennials and our hunger for justice or the millennial–old respect that land has for its Native peoples, this collection is a promise."
—MORGAN CURTIS, storyteller and climate activist with Climate Journey and Our Children's Trust

"Public lands accessible to all nurture a free people, of diverse cultures, some with ancient bonds to such landscapes. They are not a luxury or a waste. Try running an engine with gas but no oil. Also, please read this book."
—DAVID QUAMMEN, author of Spillover
STEPHEN TRIMBLE was a park ranger at Arches and Capitol Reef National Parks in his twenties and has since published more than twenty books. He received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation and a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellowship at the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center. In 1995, Trimble co–compiled with Terry Tempest Williams the landmark book of advocacy, Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness—the model for Red Rock Testimony. He teaches writing in the University of Utah Honors College and makes his home in Salt Lake City and in Torrey, Utah.
Charles Wilkinson
INTRODUCTION

Simon Ortiz
RIGHT OF WAY

Kevin T. Jones
THE MAN WITH A HEART OF STONE

Jana Richman
THE LAND OF NO USE

David Gessner
THE FREEDOM OF RESTRAINT

Karen Shepherd
THE ONLY WAY FORWARD

Regina Lopez–Whiteskunk
IT'S TIME TO HEAL BEARS EARS

Lauret Savoy
ON COMPROMISED GROUND

Christpher Cokinos
STONE THAT LEAPS

Kathleen Dean Moore
WHAT SHALL WE GIVE THE CHILDREN?

Jen Jackson Quintano
MEMORY

Terry Tempest Williams
TIME

Jim Enote
A PLACE FOR MEDIATION

Alastair Lee Bitsoi
SHASH JAA' FOLLOWS WHEREVER I GO

Juan Palma
THE WILDNESS IN NATURE BINDS US TO THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

Shonto Begay
THE VIEW FROM THE MESA

Mary Ellen Hannibal
THE UR–BEAR

Mary Sojourner
BEAR'S EARS

Amy Irvine
SEEING RED

Thomas Lowe Fleischner
THE GRACE OF WILDNESS

David Lee
PRELUDE

George Handley
FAITH AND THE LAND

Brooke Williams
LEASE UTU91481

Anne Terashima
WE [HEART] WILDERNESS

Jacqueline Keeler
IT IS THE LAND THAT TELLS THE STORY

Alison Hawthorne Deming
THE NATURALISTS

Michelle Nijhuis
WHAT THE TORTOISE TAUGHT ME

Chip Ward
WHOLE AND HOLY

Ann Whittaker
WHEN THE DESERT MORNING RISES

Gary Paul Nabhan
UP BETWEEN THE BEARS EARS

Bruce Babbitt
IT'S TIME TO ACT

Mark Udall
I AM A SON OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU

Stephen Trimble
WE COME OUT DANCING TOGETHER