There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscape of Central Oregon's vast high desert.InWhere the Crooked River Rises,Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that "has been, and remains," her...