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Going Back to Bisbee
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Going Back to Bisbee Paperback - 1992

by Shelton, Richard

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University of Arizona Press, 1992-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. Contents are tight and clean
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  • Title Going Back to Bisbee
  • Author Shelton, Richard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-05-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 035749
  • ISBN 9780816512898 / 0816512892
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.13 x 0.81 in (23.67 x 15.57 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
  • Library of Congress subjects Bisbee (Ariz.), Arizona - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91041131
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.1

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From the rear cover

One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher in nearby Bisbee. Now a university professor and respected poet living in Tucson, still in love with the Southwestern deserts, Shelton sets off for Bisbee on a not-uncommon day trip. Along the way, he reflects on the history of the area, on the beauty of the landscape, and on his own life. Couched within the narrative of his journey are passages revealing Shelton's deep familiarity with the region's natural and human history. Whether conveying the mystique of tarantulas or describing the mountain-studded topography, he brings a poet's eye to this seemingly desolate country. His observations on human habitation touch on Tombstone, "the town too tough to die", on ghost towns that perhaps weren't as tough, and on Bisbee itself, a once prosperous mining town now an outpost for the arts and a destination for tourists. What he finds there is both a broad view of his past and a glimpse of that city's possible future. Going Back to Bisbee explores a part of America with which many readers may not be familiar. A rich store of information embedded in splendid prose, it shows that there are more than miles on the road to Bisbee.

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  • Booklist, 07/01/1992, Page 1914
  • Library Journal, 07/01/1992, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/29/1992, Page 0

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