Abbey, Edward - Jack Loeffler (essay date spring 1993)
Jack Loeffler (essay date spring 1993)
SOURCE: Loeffler, Jack. “Edward Abbey, Anarchism and the Environment.” Western American Literature 28, no. 1 (spring 1993): 43-49.
[In the following essay, Loeffler offers a personal remembrance of Abbey's contribution to literature and environmentalism.]
One time, Ed Abbey and I were talking about an upcoming election. Ed said to me, “I'm a registered anarchist.”
I asked him, “How long have you been a registered anarchist?”
Ed said “Oh, about 5000 years. In the realm of ideal politics, I'm some sort of an agrarian, barefoot wilderness eco-freak anarchist. One of my favorite thinkers is Prince Kropotkin. Another is Henry Thoreau.”
Professionally, Abbey's greatest wish was to be regarded as a fine writer, a literary man. Many's the time Abbey confided that he felt that New York publishers thought he'd been born on the wrong side of the Hudson. But after due...
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