Writing the West Series Continues at UW |
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Dec. 10, 2002 -- Writer Terry Tempest Williams and photographer Emmet Gowin will discuss their works Friday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. in the University of Wyoming College of Education Auditorium.
The program, "The Earth at Risk: Bringing Home Home," is part of the Writing the West series, sponsored by the UW American Studies Program and Department of English.
Williams, who grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, says, "I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture. I am a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, these ideas are then filtered through the prism of my culture and my culture is Mormon."
Recipient of the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Award for Special Achievement, Williams is the author of "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place"; "An Unspoken Hunger; Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape"; and "Coyote's Canyon."
Gowin, a native of Virginia, teaches photography at Princeton University. He has published several books of photographs. His first subjects were taken from his domestic life -- images of his wife, children, and extended family in Virginia. Later works included landscapes of Europe, the devastation and beauty of Mt. St. Helens, and the emptiness of Petra. His aerial photographs expose a world of gold mines, open coal pits, battlefields, atomic test sites, poisoned lakes below cloudless skies.
Writing the West builds from the two-month residency of James Galvin, author of "The Meadow and Fencing the Sky," who was the William Robertson Coe distinguished professor of American studies for fall 2002. Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002
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