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Granite and Grace reflects Michael Cohen’s fifty-year encounter with the granite in the high country of Yosemite National Park, where he seeks a sense of belonging in an era called the Anthropocene. By creating a dialogue between geological and literary representations, where the geological becomes metaphorical, while science turns mythological, these essays shaped by on-the-rock encounters with landforms, open up important experiential and pragmatic dimensions.

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Cohen has produced an inimitable capstone to a scholarly career: a metamorphic anti-memoir...By situating his personal inquiry into human meaning on a substance-intrusive granite-that resists storytelling, Cohen takes a hard route to grace. A perfect book for mountain people who distrust easy answers to existential questions. - Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History Cohen melds his lifetime of serious literary reading with a lifetime of wandering on and among the granite of Tuolumne Meadows. To these exalted preoccupations add the soul of poet and the intellectual curiosity of a geologist. The result is not only intimate, but, as the title promises, full of grace. - David Stevenson, author of Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing

"""Cohen has produced an inimitable capstone to a scholarly career: a metamorphic anti-memoir…By situating his personal inquiry into human meaning on a substance—intrusive granite—that resists storytelling, Cohen takes a hard route to grace. A perfect book for mountain people who distrust easy answers to existential questions.""— Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History ""Cohen melds his lifetime of serious literary reading with a lifetime of wandering on and among the granite of Tuolumne Meadows. To these exalted preoccupations add the soul of poet and the intellectual curiosity of a geologist. The result is not only intimate, but, as the title promises, full of grace.""— David Stevenson, author of Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing"

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Michael P. Cohen is an award-winning author of several books including Treelines and A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin. Cohen, a rock climber and mountaineer, is a pioneer of first ascents in the Sierra Nevada, and has been a professional mountain guide. He splits his time between Reno, NV and June Lake, CA. he first visited Tuolumne Meadows in 1955.

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