Edward Lueders | The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah

This event is free and open to the public and will take place at the bookshop. 

Novelist, poet, WWII veteran, jazz pianist, and professor emeritus from the University of Utah, Edward Lueders, will discuss and sign his new nonfiction book, The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah.

Once again cast in the companionable style of journal entries and notes that readers enjoyed in Lueders's 1977 creative nonfiction classic, The Clam Lake Papers: A Winter in the North Woods, this new investigation into language and ways of knowing follows the author's move from the north woods of Wisconsin to the Intermountain West of Utah. 

The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah is divided into two sections by location and time. Book One reflects the central geophysical presence of the Great Salt Lake, in view from Leuders's home and the University of Utah campus where he studied and taught. Researched and composed during the 1980s, it is published here for the first time. Book Two begins with his retirement to the "earthscapes" of the Torrey-Capitol Reef area of southern Utah and contemplates the Colorado River system. Hydrology thus provides both the physical and the metaphysical basis for the author's reflective insights and for the natural flow of his advancing thought. 

Beautifully written, The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah, in varied ways, speaks to the necessity of the humanities in the modern age. At its heart, Lueders's small book of intellectual musings explores place and the ways landscape shapes what is observant in each of us.

Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah from The King's English.

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Event date: 
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
The King's English Bookshop
1511 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah By Edward Lueders Cover Image
$14.95
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ISBN: 9781607816355
Published: University of Utah Press - October 30th, 2018