Bones Incandescent: The Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church

ISBN-10: 0896724387
ISBN-13: 9780896724389
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 236
Language: English
Published: 2001
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Author: Peggy Pond Church

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"The journals, dating from the 1930s, are studies in spiritual and psychological response to the landscape that informed Church's sensibilities and creative energy. The plateau she loved became both her subject and the basis of her connection to other women writers, particularly Warner, Mary Austin, and May Sarton."--BOOK JACKET.

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