Poetry Of The Desert Southwest

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.

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.

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.

"Drawing on diverse life experiences, spanning education, engineering, ministry, law, and the performing arts, the authors bring a similarity of tone, style, and rhythm to both fiction and non-fiction in the eleven chapters of this anthology"--Insert.

A Thousand Horses Out to Sea is a dark, feminine collection of poetry. There is song here, stomp dance and corrido and deep, sad lyricism. Set mainly in desert Southwest, inside the glittering Indian city of Albuquerque, the lives in these poems are full of cruelty, beauty, and pain.

Poetry. Foreword by Penny Harter. LIFTING THE SKY is the first in a new series from Dos Gatos Press: Poetry of the American Southwest. A perfect marriage of form--haiku--and subject--the limitless inspirations of the American Southwest--LIFTING THE SKY is essential reading for haiku and poetry lovers everywhere. With thirty-three stunning haiga, this collection is also a treat for the eye. Penny Harter, co-author of The Haiku Handbook (25th Anniversary Edition, 2010), contributed the foreword. Here, Harter says, we enter haiku and haiga that take us through the beauties of the landscape--from desert and mountains to the sea; poems that express the poets' political, spiritual, mythical, cultural, and deeply personal connections to the Southwest; poems that make us laugh or cry; and poems drenched in light that repeatedly carry us from the Earth into the stars and galaxies. As does the landscape, these poems lift us out of ourselves.

"As to when I shall visit civilization again, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me?"--From Everett's last letter to his brother Waldo before he disappeared, written November 11, 1934.Everett Ruess developed a profound connection with the arid wilderness of the Southwest. Finding inspiration in this land of harsh beauty, Everett wandered, painted, and wrote; his letters revealed an intelligent and gifted young man who was most at home in desert canyons and rugged mountains. In one of his poems, "The Artist's Song of Inspiration," Everett wrote: "Nature has shown me what to strive for, and I shall not be slow to follow her." Everett did follow Nature, and in November of 1934, at the age of twenty, Everett followed her into the Escalante region of southern Utah and never returned.On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess was teh first collection of Everett's writings and was originally published in 1940, six years after his disappearance. This commemorative edition once again makes available the writings that made Everett Ruess a wilderness legend.