A meditation on the Nevada desert, a place so empty that it's both physically overpowering and psychically disorienting.

William L. Fox is the author of The Void, the Grid and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin; View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape; and Reading Sand and numerous volumes of poetry. Mark Klett directed the Rephotographic Survey Project in the 1970s and has staged one-person exhibits at such venues as the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of American Art. His books include Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest and Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest.