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A Pagan Polemic: Reflections on Nature, Consciousness, and Anarchism
Author(s): Jack Loeffler (Author)
- Publisher: UNM Press
- Publication Date: November 15, 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826365175
- ISBN-13: 9780826365170
Book Description
A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler–itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector–whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play The Stars and Stripes Forever during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack’s mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring Indigenous mindedness to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. A Pagan Polemic is a sweeping manifesto of Jack’s core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for Nature and Nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years–and we are lucky to have it.–Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild: Essays
No one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life’s work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands.–William deBuys, author of
The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of LossAbout the Author
Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, radio producer, writer, and musician. He lives in Santa Fe.
