Poetry Of The Desert Southwest

In this volume, 25 writers share their visions of the American Southwest in 44 pieces of poetry and prose written in all genres--poetry, prose, fiction, and non-fiction. Includes information on each writer.

When Mary Ruth Weaver moved to Yuma, Arizona, she had no idea she would someday be showering with lizards! This event gave her the inspiration to write a poem about her experience. Showering With Lizards takes the reader traveling throughout Arizona. Animals, flowers, rivers, gems, and people of the desert southwest will keep you intrigued as you read in poetry and prose the beauty, history, and species names of animals and plants in the desert. An excellent read for students in English and Biology, but everyone will enjoy learning and sometimes identifying with some of these experiences.

The second in a series on Poetry of the American Southwest, Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems is a collection of poems in the voices of those who inhabit the Southwest-from earliest times to the present, making this collection a fascinating history of the Southwest as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants over the centuries.

Desert Winter is an imaginative form of poetry fiction that explores the life-changing experience of pursuing an impossible love. With devotion similar to obsession, a woman struggles to free herself from a romance at once exhilarating but ultimately unattainable. An artist from Seattle finishing her master's degree in the desert southwest finds herself unexpectedly entangled with an astronomy professor who has dedicated his life to Zen Buddhism. Written over the course of a single winter in Taos, New Mexico, her attempts to reconcile their deep connection and the love affair's inevitable conclusion, through expressions of poetic verse, narrate this book of poems.

Weaving the Terrain is the third collection in "Poetry of the American Southwest," a unique series from Dos Gatos Press. Each poem is exactly one hundred words long-no more, no less. Subject and form are as varied as the landscape, the history, the people they evoke-stunning poems in every shape possible, including prose poems and haibun.

Americana, mostly west and southwest, original and traditional poetic forms, serious to whimsical