Thu, Feb 22
|Santa Fe
John Brandi, A Luminous Uplift, Landscape & Memory
"They are a form of language on landscape, a form of inscape, that, intimate and moving, are also arresting and revelatory."-- Arthur Sze .
Date, Time & Location
Feb 22, 2024, 6:00 PM MST
Santa Fe, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Purchase your copy of A Luminous Uplift, Landscape & Memory ($20.00, paperback) online from CW here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
A Luminous Uplift is a rich compendium of John Brandi's new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative travels through the American Southwest to the far reaches of the Himalaya.
John Brandi’s selection of writings over the last four decades opens with a memoir addressing his awakening to landscape and poetry during his upbringing in California, his counterculture years in the Sixties, his Peace Corps work with indigenous farmers in the Andes, his eye-opening travels in India. Two sections of travel essays follow. The first is focused on his multiple visits to India, Sikkim and Nepal, with vivid descriptions of Khajuraho’s erotic temples, the ritual dances of Kerala, the monasteries…