The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art

by Janice Monk and Vera Norwood

Book Overview

Over the past century, women artists and writers have expressed diverse creative responses to the landscape of the Southwest. "The Desert Is No Lady" provides a cross-cultureal perspective on women by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300036884
• ISBN13: 9780300036886
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

poetic scholarship!

The Desert is No Lady is a book of careful scholarship about a much neglected subject, and is also a work of love. The authors have gathered the voices of 19th and 20th century women -- Hispanic and Native American as well as white -- who found their inspiration and muse in the severe but haunting beauty of the southwest US desert. The voices that emerge here collectively invite the reader into her or his own "center of boundless desire" (p. 29). The voices woven together unify body, place, and spirit in evocative detail. This book is an academic resource, but is far more than that: it is pure poetry!