Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home

By Ellen Waterston

Book Overview

There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscape of Central Oregon's vast high desert.InWhere the Crooked River Rises,Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that "has been, and remains," her touchstone and crucible. The high desert is Waterston's teacher, and she describes its lessons with grace and care, inviting readers to look at their own lives through a lens of wide-open spaces, sagebrush and juniper, pumice and rabbit brush.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870715925
• ISBN13: 9780870715921
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"