This is an enchanting brief volume about the embrace of place. The author, who is naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History, writes about her love affair with the canyons of Southern Utah. Williams uses earth, water, fire, and air as pathways to express her experience of an erotics of place. The sensual drawings and paintings by Mary Frank enhance these lyrical passages about desire, attraction, arousal, and renewal. Williams listens deeply to the desert and hears its siren call. She responds with prose poems that sing of the blending of body and place. Desert Quartet illustrates how the wildness of this milieu mirrors the wildness within Terry Tempest Williams.