Description
Creator-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways in which landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and remedy of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West’s emptiest spaces – the playas, or dry beds, of the traditional lakes that when filled much of the Great Basin. Some of the flattest, such a lot barren places on the earth, the West’s playas have haunted the American imagination for the reason that Fremont expedition first surveyed them within the early nineteenth century.