Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Finding Beauty in a Broken World
by Terry Tempest Williams
Form follows function in Terry Tempest Williams’ Finding Beauty in a Broken World. As she discovers beauty in what is broken, her text proceeds in pieces: clippings from newspapers and government reports, bits of legislation, quotes from old poets and pieces of her own poetry, dialogue and letters, time-stamped journal entries and field reports. Certain images repeat and reflect, like the bones of animals and humans, collected and preserved for study and memory, and hands clasped in prayer – statues in …
