Description
A lyrical, genre-defying collection of essays, this book braids theory, questions, and intimate attention into a living practice of listening—where land is not backdrop but relation. Across ten essays, the author moves through small, charged moments and larger philosophical currents, asking how embodied understanding can outpace language, logic, and the demand to be fully legible. Rooted in queer Indigenous experience and shaped by ideas of opacity and relation, the work turns toward the irrigation canal, the clearing, and the voices “beneath,” treating place as a teacher and a companion. With subversive tenderness and a scholar’s precision, these pages invite readers to rethink love, identity, and survival as something made—again and again—through the land itself.
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paperback
University of Minnesota Press
Published Jan 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781517915049
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead.