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For Amanda, Stephanie, Mary, and Mollie

Praise for Barry Lopez’s

RESISTANCE

“Diamond-sharp . . . sumptuously descriptive. . . . Lopez gives us a glimpse of how the sparks fly when individual will digs in against culture’s monolith. ”

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Powerfully insightful. . . . If you’re looking for a refreshing switch from silliness, you need look no further than Lopez. ”

— Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“September 11 was the day that changed the world forever [and] in his latest collection of short fiction, Barry Lopez addresses the premonitory tremors and staggering aftershocks of that utterly changed world. . . . Eloquent defenses of the natural world, of indigenous peoples, of moderation, of life lived outside the mainstream. . . . Lopez’s writing is luminous, almost shamanic, with metaphors and poetic rhythms pulsing from every page. ”

—LA Weekly

“A cunning work of fiction likely to provoke anyone with hope of the future to reassess their current strategies for happiness. . . . Through these mesmerizing stories, Lopez challenges us all to pay attention to how well our lives express our deepest values. ”

—Rocky Mountain News

“A manifesto for the twenty-first century. . .

—Santa Cruz Sentinel

“Barry Lopez is a writer of alchemical powers who transforms tyranny with a brilliance of language into brave acts of conscience and consequence. ”

—Terry Tempest Williams

“Barry Lopez is a rarity—a writer of unembarrassed seriousness. Resistance, his sequence of depositions from nine troubled travelers, is a work of luminous gravity. It sets the oldest wisdoms of myth and landscape against the newest conventions of the West in narratives which are daring, sensuous, beautiful and important. ”

—Jim Crace

“A dynamic and remarkable meditation on engagement. . . . Written against the paranoia that accompanies terrorism and its mirror image, the Patriot Act, Resistance is subtle and persuasive protest literature. . . . Resistance makes explicit the connection between art and politics, suggesting it’s high time they work together again. ”

—St. Petersburg Times

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The monotypes in Resistance are from a larger body of work created by Alan Magee between 1990 and 2000. A few of the earliest images were included in a show of the artist’s work at the Staempfli Gallery in New York in the fall of 1990. The full collection was presented for the first time at the Berliner Philharmonic in Berlin in November 2000.

I would like to thank Alan and Monika Magee for their conversation and hospitality while I was at work on Resistance, and also Marion Gilliam for his gracious support. Luis Verano, Isabel Sterling, Skip Cosper, and T. R. Hummer helped me clarify several fine points in the stories, and I’m most grateful.