PALISADE PRESS
JUST PUBLISHED:
This coffee table-size book celebrates the Taos years of Mabel Dodge Luhan, the wealthy patron of the arts who replicated her New York salon (which attracted the likes of Lincoln Steffans, Walter Lippman, Emma Goldman, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, and Alfred Steiglitz) at her home, Los Gallos, in Taos from 1916 to 1962, attracting such renowned artists as D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Willia Cather, and many more. Lavishly illustrated with period photos, IN HER OWN WORDS forms a scrapbook that captures a defining time in American arts and literature.
TALES OF TAOS
by Harry Vedoe
Born in Denmark, cartoonist, graphic designer, and longtime Taos resident Harry Vedoe has a particular -- and sometimes peculiar -- take on his adopted hometown and both Taosenos and tourists. Laughs for visitors and residents alike.
ABOUT PALISADE PRESS:
In 2009 Craig Smith and Lynda Smith launched Palisade Press with the publication of DEAR FRIENDS, a collection of poems by Patrizia de Rachewiltz, with photographs by Lynda Smith. (Please see "Dear Friends" on this site.)
We followed this first book with YOUR EYES, a collection of the last poems by the late Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese, in a new bilingual edition translated by Craig Smith and Patrizia de Rachewiltz. (Please see "Your Eyes" on this site.)
Our third book was JUST ENOUGH, a collection of 64 tanka by poet and translator Dennis Maloney, longtime publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press. These poems are written in the voice of a contemporary hermit-poet in a small hermitage near Kyoto, Japan, and are inspired by such classic Japanese hermit-poets as Basho and Ryokan. (Please see "Just Enough" on this site.)
Next was THE LENS & THE PEN, the first-ever publication of poems by the noted social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, accompanied by Milton's own stunning black-and-white photographs of working people around the world that inspired the poems.
With these inaugural publications we announce our intention to establish an independent press, one that aspires to fresh thinking and collaborations across cultures, boundaries, and borders. We also hope to discover new voices, and we will not neglect the healing power of humor.
P A L I S A D E
A line of bold cliffs, a shelf of bold books.
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