These poems are part of a larger whole, gleaned from some 25 years of journal recordings. In the first three or four years of "serious" writing, I mostly wrote little hokku-like poems on little scrap pieces of paper I kept in my pockets and later recorded in my journals--desert breaths, sighs, groans with sexual-geographical overtones--jotted down while teaching school on a ranch in Arizona, hitch-hiking all over the Southwest, and trekking deep into the wilderness. Then, the first longer poems were actually juxtapositions of these little pieces--montages, compositions, jazz riffs and...
These poems are part of a larger whole, gleaned from some 25 years of journal recordings. In the first three or four years of "serious" writing, I mos...
The storied town of Durango is situated on the farmlands of the Ancestral Puebloans, which later became the hunting grounds for the Southern Utes, in the Animas River Valley of southwestern Colorado. Founded in 1880 as the headquarters of the Silverton branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Durango became the supply depot for gold and silver mines up and down the Western Slope. One of the few old-time cowboy towns in Colorado that retains the vibrancy of a self-supporting downtown of hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, Durango has worked actively to restore and remodel historic...
The storied town of Durango is situated on the farmlands of the Ancestral Puebloans, which later became the hunting grounds for the Southern Utes, in ...