![]() ![]() Most often they take the form of straight shot vaginas but it isn't out of the question for an Onahole to be an entire lower torso or even an entire woman just scaled down into a handheld toy. In my experience for something to be an "onahole all it needs is an orifice to insert into and be vaguely skin colored and penis shaped. That's exactly where the name Onahole comes from, anyways. Whether it’s AMAX out at Great Salt Lake and the draining of the.Firstly I'd like to say that this variety of male stroker is very heavily dipped in Japanese sensibility. Or whether it’s the wilderness bill that was brought to the American people by the Utah delegation that inadequate acreage and inadequate pro Siporin/Williams 101 tection. In many ways the threats are greater, in terms of extractive industries that are always looming over the Kaiparowits Plateau. And it’s also where I think I was mentored-at the Teton Science School-and where those ideas in terms of the land ethic were really born in me.” “What changes are you seeing?” “The changes I’ve seen in the Yellowstone plateau, Great Salt Lake, and in the Colorado Plateau are the changes we’re all seeing in the American West. our family always spent the summers in Jackson Hole. It’s where I have written all my books it’s where I feel a very strong sense of community. It’s interesting though-the one landscape I have not written about is the landscape north and that might be the most private and potent landscape of all for me. and five hours south we’re in the Colorado Plateau. five hours north, you’re in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole. And that would be the tri angle that I stand in.” I asked her if it was the triangle she always intended to stand in. So that’s a storied landscape with Other. And then the point north would be in the Yellowstone plateau, in the Tetons, in Yellowstone, and that would be a place of enchantment that includes animals: grizzlies, moose, elk, weasel, trumpeter swans. Also, whenever you’re out at the lake you inevitably face Salt Lake City, so in a way it’s the tension between a domesticated life and a wild one. The breaking down of mythologies, even my own. With Great Salt Lake it’s the whole notion that nothing is as it appears. With the desert it’s about heat, it’s exposure. The red rocks- being inside of an animal-the stillness there. To the south, would be somewhere on the Colorado Plateau in the confluence of those canyons between Canyonlands and Escalante. The long-legged birds, great blue herons, avocets, stilts, ibis, shoveler, teal. ![]() I think of a triangle, and one of the points of the triangle, probably the central point, would be Great Salt Lake, the Bear 100 Western American Literature River Bird Refuge-a landscape of my childhood associated with my family, my grandmother in particular. Still, I wondered how she would define her own place of enchantment. ![]() In her many works it is clear that her concerns are with the Great Basin and the deserts. She is the naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, has a master’s degree in environmental education, and has won the Southwest Book Award. I wanted to hear how Terry would situate herself. She showed me into a living room where we sat by the windows and talked. In late April of this year, at the request of Western American Literature, I drove up canyon out of Salt Lake and introduced myself at Terry’s door. Time spent with Williams reveals a woman whose intriguing power, determina tion, and ambition remain half-obscured by seeming contradictions. The intricate moves of Terry Tempest Williams in her efforts towards environmental justice are to turn the kaleidoscope ninety degrees, to listen to a shell (Pieces o f White Shell), to translate the calligraphy of herons in flight (An Unspoken Hunger), to name the snows (The Silent Language of Snow), and to trace the rapid unrav eling of the lives of the women in her family (Refuge). O N A S I P O R I N Utah State University Terry Tempest Williams and Ona Siporin: A Conversation William Stafford once wrote: justice will take us millions o f intricate moves. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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