"To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200."
'The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona' / by Bruce Berger / A Desert Harvest / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / March 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Bruce Berger grew up in suburban Chicago. A poet and nonfiction writer, he is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture in desert settings. The first of these, The Telling Distance, won the 1990 Western States Book Award and the 1991 Colorado Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Sierra, Orion Magazine, and Gramophone; his poems have appeared in Poetry, Barron’s, and various literary reviews in the United States, Scotland, and India, and have been collected in Facing the Music.
Excerpted to Longreads from A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays by Bruce Berger. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 1990, 1994, 2004, 2019 by Bruce Berger. All rights reserved.'
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