I think the time has come to embalm these stories and commit them to the museum of the written word. I beg you, though, to bear in mind that these stories are meant not at all to be read silently. Try reading them aloud, especially before a good campfire, and see if the mummies do not escape their wrappings and walk about in the firelight, as strange and beautiful as when first they came to me. These stories frequently border on the improbable, if not the outright fantastic; I have been lifelong a writer of stories that leave behind the mundane, ordinary, "realistic" world of our everyday...
I think the time has come to embalm these stories and commit them to the museum of the written word. I beg you, though, to bear in mind that these sto...
Poetry is not only the most sublimely difficult but the most deeply personal of all word-arts. Close to being a spiritual autbiography, this collection mostly strives to express what lies beyond the reach of language. Previous readers have suggested similarities to Neruda, Paz, Rumi, William Blake, Rilke, and Rimbaud. "Poetry," a friend once wrote, "leads us past the indescribable and submerges us in the experience." Just as the mountaintop has a natural affinity for the sky it cannot touch, so poetry, as the highest form of word-art, has a natural affinity for that which is beyond words:...
Poetry is not only the most sublimely difficult but the most deeply personal of all word-arts. Close to being a spiritual autbiography, this collectio...
An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panama. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures in one of the world's last frontier lands. Here one still sees Ngabe Bugle people, in their bare feet and traditional finery, walking through the village as if they are visiting from another planet. Here descendants of the Conquistadores still ride horseback on dirt roads far too rutted for the new...
An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panama. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds...
This DELUXE edition is generously sized (81/2"x11"), with gorgeous photographs on nearly every page An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panama. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures in one of the world's last frontier lands. Here one still sees Ngabe Bugle people, in their bare feet and traditional finery, walking through the village as if they are visiting from another planet. Here...
This DELUXE edition is generously sized (81/2"x11"), with gorgeous photographs on nearly every page An American who cannot afford to live in his own ...
