Wind in the Rock
Zwinger walks Grand Gulch, Slickhorn and Fish Creek recording geology and Anasazi remains, and what that particular solitude does to the person walking through it.
Zwinger walks the canyons of southeastern Utah, among them Grand Gulch, Slickhorn and Fish Creek, recording geology, Anasazi remains, and what solitude in that landscape does to a person. One of the founding books of American desert writing. She notices at the scale of a hand lens, and the accumulated detail is what makes the emptiness of the country legible rather than merely large.
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Maria Popova
That is what Ann Zwinger (March 12, 1925–August 30, 2014) invokes in Wind in the Rock (public library) — her breathtaking 1978 account of falling in love with Utah’s rocky canyons, finding a microcosm of the world in their desolate Martian landscapes threaded with cattle trails, touching both the immediacy of life and the size of time in their elemental majesty.
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