Brooke Larson (Bücher)

Brooke Larson Bücher

Brooke Larson ist Schriftstellerin, Kolagistin und gelegentliche Wildnisführerin. Ihre Arbeit, geprägt von ihren vielfältigen Interessen, erforscht oft die Grenzen zwischen Wort und bildender Kunst. Larson nutzt ihren Hintergrund in der Collage-Kunst, um vielschichtige und unkonventionelle Erzählungen zu schaffen, die traditionelle literarische Formen herausfordern. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch einen innovativen Ansatz in Sprache und Struktur aus.

Pleasing Tree

158 Seiten
6 Lesestunden

4,9(6)Abgeben

Nominated for the 2020 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction&Nominated for the 2020 Association for Mormon Letters Creative Nonfiction AwardBrooke Larson’s essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness. Beginning with a Mormon-founded experiment in primitive survival, teenagers hike the Arizona desert while Larson shines light on the effects of prolonged exposure to the outdoors, to lands considered inhospitable to life. Recalling Biblical and religious sojourns, Larson maps her own travels from the desert to Salt Lake City to New York City to Jerusalem, observing the life that curls in a leaf, the bug that spews cinnamon-flavored goo, and the water that occasionally floods the desert. Her essays track the impact the often unnoticed has on the human psyche, discovering the awe upon the recognition that even the desert’s heart beats. This collection crawls with insects, communicative plants, and poetry. It pulses with blood and breath, excrement and the bodies of the living.