Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation.

Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where â€œjeweled ceilings became lavish talesâ€ through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing.

A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking that which is broken and creating something whole.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-10-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375420788

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-10-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375420788

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

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