All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to westward visions of an alternate life. Presented in essay, poems and four unabashed interviews, Tucumcari probes history's intersections of public & private demons, as well as decisions made in a family's past that alter the course of our lives. "Tucumcari takes us from where we are...to what made us who we are...to who we might have been...to who we might yet be...and back again." --Cee Williams, author of 12 Poems
All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to west...
In a waiting room, beside a sickbed, under the covers, in the closet, on a lonely moonlit run, on a cross-country drive home, before the beginning, and at the very end... These moments, at once intimate and commonplace, often pass unexamined because they feel too raw for words; the twenty-seven essays, poems, and works of fiction in this book break this culture of silence. The authors of Uprooted brave the terrains of illness, gender, sexuality, and identity to deliver astounding personal narratives about their humanity and mortality, love, and loss. Together, they offer a roadmap with which...
In a waiting room, beside a sickbed, under the covers, in the closet, on a lonely moonlit run, on a cross-country drive home, before the beginning, an...
