Having grown up amid the ravaged coalfields of Ohio, David Axelrod felt oddly at home when, twenty years ago, he moved west and saw his first clear-cut forest. In Troubled Intimacies, Axelrod explores his life in the rural interior West and the way in which surroundings, visible and invisible, shape our emotional and intellectual lives. In describing his life and the lives of his neighbors in eastern Oregon's Grande Ronde Valley, Axelrod raises hard questions about the relationship between humans and the western landscape-a relationship too often predicated on disastrous violence. Axelrod reveals the dissonance that exists between the mythical American West and the far more complex, troubled relations we actually experience as individuals and communities in the western U.S. In these powerful and provocative essays, he shows the challenges and rewards of piecing together a meaningful life in the rural West.

2000-2099, Axelrod, David, 1958-, Biographies, College teachers, College teachers Oregon Biography, Écologie du paysage, Human geography, Landscape ecology, Manners and customs, Naturalistes Oregon Biographies, Naturalists, Naturalists Oregon Biography, Oregon, Oregon Biographies, Oregon Biography, Oregon Mœurs et coutumes, Oregon Social life and

Going wild A westward-going heart A habit of mind Sonata of the dwindling year The fidelity of thieves April fools Sane at the mind that makes a nest A rant Healing in Notes on the erotic life of the household Gathering : a calendar Jardin romántico The dimensions of hope Here and now