Barry Lopez

Language and Landscape

by Keith Taylor

posted 10/1/2006

The intersection of language and landscape has always been central to the work of Barry Lopez. How do we — particularly we non-Native North Americans — imagine the landscape we have come to inhabit, and where do we find the words that help us understand it and that might be essential for us to live in it? This was a central preoccupation of Lopez's

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