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UNSQUARE DANCE: Riffs and Reflections on Dave Brubeck
Craig Smith
UNSQUARE DANCE is a sequence of responses in poem form to compostions
in music by Dave Brubeck,the jazz giant who for more than a half century
eated a body of work that stands as one of the greatcreations in music history.
An indefatigible composer and consumate pianist, Brubeck was also an unofficial
ambassador of world peace, one who thought that all peoples should understand
all peoples, and who recognized music as a powerful means of reaching out to the
world. Smith is a writer and editor based in Taos, New Mexico. Paintings are by
Lynda Smith, an artist based in Taos, New Mexico.
The game is afoot! To enter the pages of Proud Shoes is to encounter variations
on a lifelong obsession, one that is footloose and fancy free,
a flight into an unchartered world of untamed tongues and loosened lacesl Herein lies
history mystery fun, fashion, fitness, fantasy, innuendo,and intrigue!
72 pages of light poetic musings with drawings, monoprints, and photographs.
"Some psychologists say the woman who collects shoes is
a frustrated traveler; others suggest that she is symbolically
seeking enlightenment."--Linda O'Keeffe.
TANGLED HAIR
Akiko Yosano
Translated by Dennis Maloney and Hide Oshiro
TANGLED HAIR presents selected tanka by the celebrated Japanese poet Akiko Yosano
(1878-1942). Her book Midaregami, or Tangled Hair, from which these poems are taken,
was an immediate success when it was published in 1901. Yosano infused the poems with
an erotic and imaginative passion at a time when traditional tanka poetry had grown lifeless
and conventional. Maloney is the well-known and respected editor of
White Pine Press, and Oshiro (1910-2012) was a visual artist and haiku poet.
JUST ENOUGH
Dennis Maloney
These poems by Dennis Maloney, the well-known and respected editor of White Pine Press
and the authorof several volumes of poetry, are written in the voice of a contemporary hermit-poet
living in theHigashiyama region of Kyoto, Japan. Inspired by the classic Japanese hermit poets,
the poems grapplewith the tensions bewtween engagement with and withdrawal from the world,
but do not escape thecomplications and struggles of modern existence.
YOUR EYES
Cesare Pavese
Translated by Craig Smith and Patrizia de Rachewiltz
Poet, novelist, and translator Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was a towering figure in twentieth
century Italian letters. The poems in this bilingual edition reveal him grappling with themes
characteristicof much of his work--the unpredictablity of human relationships, the psychological
after-effects of war, the fragile balance between the need for human companionship and the
desire for solitude, and thestruggle between the will to live and the lure of death. De Rachewiltz
s an international, multi-lingualpoet and translator. Smith is awriter and editor based in Taos,
New Mexico. Ink drawingsby Lynda Smith of Taos, New Mexico.
DEAR FRIENDS
Patrizia de Rachewiltz
For more than thirty years the international, multi-lingual poet de Rachewiltz has carried on a
correspondence with the writer and editor Craig Smith and the artist Lynda Smith. This collection
gathers for the first time many poems included in that correspondence, accompanied by
photographs by Lynda Smith. They are little illuminations in celebration of friendship.
PRECISELY THERE: A Festschrift for Ronald H. Bayes
Edited by Todd Davis, John Lawson, and Craig Smith
For more than forty years the poet Ronald H. Bayes has produced a distinguished body of work
whilementoring generations of students and inspiring colleagues and peers alike. This volume
gathers accolades from many who have known him, worked with him, and studied with him, all
in honor of his lifelong contributions to and encouragment of the arts in America.
THE LENS & THE PEN: Photographs and Poems
Milton Rogovin
This special volume contains the only published poems by the renowned social documentary
photographer Milton Rogovin, whose work focused on working men and women in many
countriesand the conditions in which they labor and live. He is represented in museums
and galleries around the world.
OUT OF PRINT
MABEL DODGE LUHAN: In Her Own Words
This large scrapbook-style volume celebrates the life and work of the famed
creator of literarysalons, focusing in particular on the famous center she
created in Taos, New Mexico. HereLuhan received a stream of famous
visitors, including D. H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe,
and many more.
To purchase this special book, contact the
Mabel Dodge Luhan House at 575-751-9686
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