A Book of Narrative Poems
The older woman can remain an adventurous risk-taker even after a loss of function. Dialogue is possible with the rock she no longer can move, the hole she no longer can dig, and the mountain she no longer can climb. Too Personal for Words documents the shock waves of inevitable change which confront elders. Unacceptable […]
Fifty Years in the Southwest
Each poem, like a hand-stitched quilt piece, finds its niche in a broad tapestry of vivid Southwestern lives spanning more than a century. The reader will hike remote canyons and mountains, encounter horse soldiers, a sequestered Apache grandmother, and a Navaho boarding school survivor, among many other intriguing and magical characters and places
A Book of Montana History
The rural people of Montana whom you will meet in these colorful story peoms refused to leave when they lost homesteads and ranches, suffered through the Great Depression, and endured ruthless cycles of drought and cruel winters with resulting loss of land, crops, and livestock. The poems are spoken in the words of grandfathers, courageous […]
A Montana History in Story Poems
The lives of the Montanans portrayed in these poems are transformed by tremendous loss and hardship. Their spiritual survival of the loss of land, several wars, and the Great Depression is make possible by faith, laughter, love, resilience, and redemption. These well-researched Montana stories, told in poems and accompanied by archival photographs, span more than […]
A Southwest Surreal Short
They come in fast and block out the sun. Dust storms pop up out of nowhere and are a danger for drivers on the open highways of the southwest. But when you can’t see what is in front of you, maybe, with a little help, a fresh pair of eyes, you see something new. Something […]
Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series
The Southwestern desert—that tumultuous “zone claimed by two nations, and controlled by no one”—is Charles Bowden’s home and enduring passion. In acclaimed books ranging from A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior and Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family to Inferno and Exodus/Éxodo, Bowden has written eloquently about […]
