DEAR FRIENDS:

Poems by Patrizia de Rachewiltz, photographs by Lynda Smith.

For more than thirty years the poet Patrizia de Rachewiltz has carried on a correspondence with Craig and Lynda Smith. Many of the small poems with which she frequently embellishes her letters are here gathered for the first time. They arrive like sudden shafts of light, with an uncanny ability in a very few words to break through any distance, pain, or heartache that life can throw in the way. These are little illuminations that flow in celebration of friendship.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 94 pages, $12.00

“ . . . a voice of refined beauty.” – Gianfranco Lauretano.

Patrizia de Rachewiltz grew up in the Tyrolean mountains of northern Italy. Born to a Russian-Italian father and an American mother, she is a multilingual poet, writer, and translator. She was educated there and in Rome (French Baccalaureate) and Vienna. She has worked as a writer, translator, and language instructor. She has read her work at literary conferences in Italy, art galleries in Holland, and other venues. She lives in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, with her husband, Jan van Diesen.

Patrizia de Rachewiltz

Lynda Smith is a multi-media artist who lives in Taos, New Mexico. She earned her M.A. in art from New York University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City; the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; the Pioneer Museum, Stockton, CA; and in Taos at the Millicent Rogers Museum and Taos Invites Taos annual exhibition. She is a member of the Taos Artists Organization (TAO). Her work may be viewed at www.lsmithart.com.