The phrase “Mister Skylight” is an emergency signal to
alert a ship’s crew\, but not its passengers\, of an emergency. This
debut collection is alert to disasters and to the hope of rescue —from
the flooding of New Orleans to the wildfires of California to the
more private emergencies of domestic life. Interior dramas of the self
are played out in a clash of poetic traditions\, exuberant imagery\, and
wild metaphor.
. . . Not to be the one who left is to live in an alarm.
The unstraightened bed.
But don’t I always bring bright souvenirs from our travels\,
a feather\, a coin\, a bee? Astonishing in my palm.
Minutes past your touch\, what our bodies were
is disappearing like a ship caught in polar ice.
Ed Skoog\, who
worked for years in the basement of a museum in New Orleans\, developed
personal connections to objects and paintings. “Working on an exhibition
about the building trades was important to this book\,” he writes.
“Spending weeks listening to the oral histories of plasterers\,
steeplejacks\, and carpenters connected me to my own family’s stories.”
Marked by uncommonly intense and considered use of language\, Skoog
demonstrates a rich attention to form and allusive narrative as he
attends to the details of contemporary politics\, culture\, place\, and
relationships.
“Ed Skoog's poetry
is so ambitious it takes my breath away. In it\, he creates dense
narratives\, sees patterns\, sees dissimilitudes\, knows how to fishtail
with images and turn with ease\, knows how to braid pop culture into
small personal melancholies and into large generosities.” The Stranger
Ed Skoog
was born in Topeka\, Kansas\, in 1971. He attended Kansas State
University and the University of Montana. His poems have been
published in many magazines\, including Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Threepenny Review\, and The Paris Review. He lives in Seattle and Washington\, DC.
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Jon Wilkins' new book of poetry\, Transistor Rodeo\, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry\, and was published by University of Utah Press in April 2010.
Wilkins' poetry has been published in The Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Möbius\, The Midday Moon\, The River King Poetry Supplement\, The Harvard Advocate\, Georgia Poetry Review\, Abbey\, Chaffin Journal\, and Moon Reader. When not writing poetry\, Wilkins is a theoretical evolutionary biologist at the Santa Fe Institute.
"\;First off you need to know how much fun Jon Wilkins's Transistor Rodeo
is\: a whole lot\, a thousand afternoons of brainy\, brawling\, fragrant\, dazzling microscopic daisies. Very few books deliver as much electricity per line\, per poem\, as this one does\, and fewer still can sustain that charge until\, crackling\, imagination flashes and gives way to beauty. Whether prayer or sonnet\, parable\, love song\, or theorem\, or frequently
more than one of these\, a Wilkins poem ambles and darts\, hesitates\, notices its surroundings\, changes direction\, exults\, and delivers us into an entirely new place. Are we changed by reading this? I think we are. Wilkins is an alchemist. Wilkins should be your alchemist."\;
- Ander Monson\, poet and essayist
At the Santa Fe Farmers Market!
All the things that go into making good savory dishes –the hand\, the heart and the five senses – go into making desserts. Seasonal Desserts from Orchard\, Farm and Market captures fruit as a means to pleasure and knowledge. Madison has used
the subject of (mostly) fruit desserts to guide readers to the names of stellar varieties\, their characteristics\, where and when they might be found\, and the history of some of our unique American fruits. This gorgeous book also looks at tree crops\, from Medjool dates to shagbark hickory nuts\, and America's new farmstead cheeses for the last course of the meal. Seasonal Desserts from Orchard\, Farm and Market
challenges our ideas about what's in season by looking at where foods are grown and what their true seasonalilty looks like. Green rhubarb with blackberries? Of course!
Because good fruit speaks so well for itself\, these desserts don't depend on terribly exacting conditions and manual dexterity for success. These are recipes for cooks rather than pastry chefs\, meaning they are easily made.
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Here are real examples from around the globe showing how homeowners are creating dream houses that satisfy their low-carbon lifestyles. From solar homes in California to an ecovillage in New York\, from a wind-powered ranch in Kansas to a home built from jumbo straw bales in the Swiss Alps\, people are doing their part to build a healthful home and planet.
In the industrialized world\, half of the energy consumed is used to construct and power buildings. Burning fossil fuels for heating and generating electricity pumps pollution into the air\, which contributes to global warming. By using energy more efficiently\, we can begin to reverse this trend and lower energy bills at the same time.
Like a hybrid car\, a hybrid house employs a combination of strategies to save energy and reduce carbon emissions. Designed to utilize the free energy of sunlight\, the passing breeze\, and the rain falling on the roof\, the hybrid household also incorporates non-toxic building materials that can be produced sustainably\, as well as using cutting-edge technologies. Thanks to modern-day pioneers leading the way\, here is living proof of beautiful twenty-first century homes that are good for both people and the planet.
Catherine Wanek is the author and photographer of The New Strawbale Home and co-editor/author of The Art of Natural Building. Also a filmmaker\, she produced The Straw Bale Solution\, Urban Permaculture\, and the Building with Straw video series. For five years\, Catherine published and edited The Last Straw\, the International Journal of Straw Bale and Natural Building. She has contributed articles and images to Su Casa magazine\, Communities\, Permaculture Activist\, Mother Earth News\, and the New York Times. Catherine is also a founding member of Builders Without Borders.
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Then a string of mysterious arrests begin and her new friend Kareem becomes a target. Sky is finally forced to confront the world in all its complexity. Summoning her considerable
courage and ingenuity\, she takes a stand against injustice. With humor\, hope\, and fierce determination\, she sets out to change the world.
"\;In this provocative title\, award-winning author Stanley asks young readers to consider what courage might look like in an America under psychological and physical siege . . . To categorize this novel as science fiction would be wishful thinking\, and parallels
to our contemporary times appear on every page . . . Readers will have much to discuss after finishing this beautifully written\, disturbing book."\; --Starred review\, Booklist
"\;This page-turner subtly builds an all-too-believable near future\, sowing
just enough clues to keep readers informed and rarely descending into
blunt exposition. It skillfully captures the irrational fear of a public
under siege while giving kids a modern-day\, almost-just-like-them
female hero who champions hope. Inspiring."\; --Kirkus
Cristina García is the author of five novels\: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, and The Lady Matador's Hotel. García has edited two anthologies\, Cubanísimo\: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires\: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. Two works for young readers\, The Dog Who Loved the Moon\, and I Wanna Be Your Shoebox were published in 2008. A collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death\, was recently published by Akashic Press.
García's work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into a dozen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers' Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. She is currently the artistic director for the Centrum Writers Exchange in Port Townsend\, Washington and has taught literature and writing at numerous universities. This coming fall\, García will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. She is also delighted to announce that she has accepted a permanent position with Texas Tech University as Professor of Creative Writing and will teach there every spring semester starting in 2011.
Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. His debut collection of poems\, Works &\; Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, judged by Claudia Keelan. In 2009\, Kelly Cherry selected his poem “Hesiod in Oklahoma\, 1934” for the prestigious Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize. Other poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, Quarterly West\, Colorado Review\, Poet Lore\, The MacGuffin\, Connecticut Review\, POOL\, Borderlands\, and many others.
He is the author of a best-selling textbook on writing and popular culture\, The World is a Text (with Jonathan Silverman)\, which just went into its fourth edition. With poet Janice Gould\, he co-edited Speak To Me Words\: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press\, 2003)\, the first collection of essays devoted to Native American poetry. Most recently\, he curated a special issue of Sentence devoted to American Indian prose poetry. His newest scholarly book\, Engaged Resistance\: Contemporary American Indian Art\, Literature\, and Film is forthcoming in 2011 from the University of Texas Press.
Rader blogs about the intersection of literature\, culture\, politics and media at The Weekly Rader\, and he reviews poetry regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle for whom he has also contributed a number of op-ed pieces. He has taught at SUNYBinghamton\, Georgia Tech\, and Texas Lutheran University. At present\, he is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco.
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“The Seasons on Henry’s Farm\, a book to be reckoned with\, lifts you high enough to witness the tremendous possibilities people are capable of expressing in their working lives—in this case\, through farming. If you’re a fan of Aldo Leopold\, or have long suspected that time-honored methods of farming are best for the earth (and our taste buds) and require intelligence and thoroughness exceeding the levels demanded by most occupations\, you will discover here that your suspicions are well founded…. The Seasons on Henry’s Farm is an exhilarating story of observation. It’s a humbling one\, too\, for few of us can imagine mustering the endurance and precision needed to farm this deeply. But that Henry and his familial band of followers can and do\, again and again\, makes the world of the farm more than a dream or an ideal. It’s a great encouraging kick in the pants for all of us\, regardless of how we spend our time\, or what we do\, to achieve such excellence in full consciousness of all its complexities and consequences. This book tells a tale as raw and vivid as one could hope for\, while gently imparting what we need to know about the soil\, plants\, and animals that sustain us.”
from the foreword by Deborah Madison
Presented by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Coming Home to Yourself\: Eighteen Wise Women Reflect on Their Journeys honors the changing face of aging and shatters stereotypes about older women. The diverse\, multi-cultural group of women featured in this book are vital\, resilient\, and continue to grow. They’ve all experienced a turning point later in life\, which has brought them home to their deepest selves.
No matter what their culture\, religion\, lifestyle\, economics or personal challenges\, all the women arrived at the same internal destination\: a place within themselves of comfort and familiarity\, of harmony and wholeness\, and of acceptance and love for themselves. Their moving stories of self-discovery and empowerment will inspire women of all ages to continue their quest to find their own authentic home.
Coming Home to Yourself\: Eighteen Wise Women Reflect on Their Journeys (Gaon Books) explores the many meanings of home to women as they age. Home can a physical place\, an emotional space\, or an activity where you can be yourself without masks or airs and be known for who you are. It is a haven within where you feel comfortable\, safe and content\: your internal and external selves matching\, your inner and outer voices becoming one.
Each of the 18 women profiled in the book\, who range in age from 56 to 77 years old and come from diverse backgrounds\, has experienced a turning
point\, insight or revelation later in life that has transformed her life and led her home to her deepest self. The book explores the process of her journey\, the support she received\, the detours along the way\, and the sense of peace that results when she discovers or reclaims a true home.
Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles\, California. She is a member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes. She attended Old Dominion University on a full athletic scholarship and\, upon graduating\, played professional basketball in Europe and Asia. After a career-ending knee injury\, she returned to ODU and received her MFA in poetry and fiction in 2007.
Stephen Graham Jones has six novels\, which include The Bird is Gone\, Demon Theory\, Ledfeather and one collection\, Bleed Into Me with another novel and another collection coming soon. He's been an NEA Fellow\, a Texas Writer's League Fellow\, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction and the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100910T074951Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100924T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100924T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/santa-fe-poet-laureate-joan-logghe-and-special-guest-alvaro-cardona-hine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/santa-fe-poet-laureate-joan-logghe-and-special-guest-alvaro-cardona-hine SUMMARY:A Reading of Two Friends\: Santa Fe Poet Laureate Joan Logghe and Special Guest Alvaro Cardona-Hine DESCRIPTION:Alvaro Cardona-Hine of Truchas\, maestro of words\, painting and music will read from recent works in print. He will be joined by Santa Fe's third poet laureate\, Joan Logghe.
This reading is Joan's first as Poet Laureate and she wants to celebrate the great friendships between writers in this generous literary community. Joan Logghe works at poetry off the academic grid in La Puebla\, New Mexico where she and her husband\, Michael\, raised three children and built three houses. She is Poet Laureate of Santa Fe 2010-2012. She studied at Tufts University\, where she graduated as Class Poet. She began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children’s school thirty years ago and has worked with children and youth as well as adults ever since.
Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants\, A Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship\, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her teaching life has included Ghost Ranch Abiquiu\, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos\, Santa Fe Community College\, Artworks\, Santa Fe Girls’ School and Santa Clara Pueblo Day School. She taught poetry in Bratislava\, Vienna\, and Zagreb\, Croatia in 2004.Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful\, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award)\, Sofia\, and Rice. Forthcoming in Spring 2011 is The Singing Bowlfrom UNM Press\, and Greatest Hits\: Love &\; Death a triptych of selected poems from Joan\, Renée Gregorio\, and Miriam Sagan the three founders of Tres Chicas Books.
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identities.
AT THE SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET
"\;This book will not only make you a true believer in the regenerative power of harvesting rain -- it will show you how. Harvest the Rain is full of practical solutions to our water shortages and points the way to a climate-resilient future. If we want thriving landscapes\, abundant food\, strong communities\, and sustainable economies\, we can start by treasuring rain."\;
--Andy Lipkis\, Founder and President of TreePeople and Ashoka Fellow
For more than a decade\, Nate Downey has written a popular monthly column called "\;Permaculture in Practice"\; for The Santa Fe New Mexican’s
award-winning ‘Real Estate Guide.’ A frequent guest on public radio\, a perennial presenter at green events\, and the author of two books on water and sustainability\, Nate is a seasoned teacher\, speaker\, writer\, and businessman. Soon after he started Santa Fe Permaculture in 1992\, Nate’s wife\, Melissa McDonald\, joined his forward-thinking landscape-design firm. Since then\, their beautiful\, functional\, and ecological projects have popped up regularly in prominent publications from Su Casa to Sunset. With their boys\, Liam and Keenan\, Nate and Melissa share a backyard brimming with bees\, bunnies\, chickens\, all sorts of edible plants\, lots of harvested rain\, and a nice little patio for building community.