The absent hand : reimagining our American landscape / Suzannah Lessard.

Main entry:

Lessard, Suzannah, author.

Title & Author:

The absent hand : reimagining our American landscape / Suzannah Lessard.

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
In the village -- Suburbophobia -- Gettysburg -- Natchez -- Truth or Consequences -- Flight -- The view from a small mountain -- The pumpkins of Bergen Street -- The market -- Youngstown -- The pendulum -- Fresh kills -- The corporation in the woods -- Atopia -- Whose hand? -- The inverted cradle.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald and others of Rebecca Solnit, but it is Lessard's singular talent to combine this profound book-length mosaic 'a blend of historical travelogue, architectural tour, philosophical meditation, and prose poem' into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. The Absent Hand begins by observing the residual places from our country's first European settlements, and continues to the life of our cities and their eventual overflow into suburbs and wildernesses. Yet Lessard is always joining us to discuss the effects of "enclosure," of how we manage to live on and in the land, how we surround ourselves on the land with stories, roads, buildings, and ideas. Whether it's climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the global enclosure is panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781640092211 hardcover
1640092218 hardcover

Subject:

Lessard, Suzannah Travel.
Landscape assessment United States.
Landscape changes United States.
Geographical perception United States.
Travelers' writings, American.
Paysages Évaluation États-Unis.
Paysages Modifications États-Unis.
Perception géographique États-Unis.
Écrits de voyageurs américains.
Geographical perception.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape changes.
Travel.
United States Description and travel.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages.
United States.

Form/genre:

travelers’ writings.
travelog (performed works genre)
Travel writing.
Récits de voyages.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305553
Call No.: BIB 251528
Status: Available

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