Philip Whalen

Miriam Sagan

Robert Winson

Buddhist Poems 1955-1986

Canoeing Up Cabaga Creek

All the major formal aspects of poetry--from rhyme to meter and pantoum to villanelle--presented in an informal accessible style.

Writing in the Lineage of Poetry

Unbroken Line

Centered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence. Each section concludes with a return home where reflection charts locations and people lost to everything from the passage of time to urban renewal.From Map of the Lost: Take a Left at My Mailbox Cross Sierra Vista and enter the cul-de-sac Where the pavement ends Cross over and down into the acequia full of trash Where a sodden quilt lies in the middle of where Stream once moved sand In eddies. The homeless camp Disintegrates, only one mattress left And I'm lecturing my daughter Who steps back to photograph it "Don't come here alone," And she retorts: "I have since I was eight," and then "It's so peaceful here, but I hate the fence." This is no arroyo, cut by rain But a remnant of man, an irrigation ditch Now watering detritus, the leftover, cast off, plastic bags, and worse. From here you can cut Up behind the Indian School Past the transformer I didn't even know was there And come out where there once were tracks Now just the runners half buried in soil. It's Baca Street! We're back In the neighborhood where my daughter Immediately becomes lost "I don't get straight streets," she says. My money's good here, I buy two cups of foamy chai And look in her face, turning from girl to woman And want to construct My map of the lost.

Map of the Lost

Miriam Bobkoff

Anthology of poetry by poets from the Santa Fe Broadside, an electronic bimonthly publication accessible on the Web.

Poets from the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside

Just Outside the Frame

Robert Winson and Miriam Sagan, both poets and zen practitioners, spent a winter in a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Colorado, and each kept a diary of the events of their lives. This is the result, a record of how spiritual practice really operates and how life works in a commune.

100 Days in a Zen Monastery

Dirty Laundry

Ana Castillo

James Reich

Kimmy Santiago Baca

Israel Francisco Haros Lopez

Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. With stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Byron F. Aspaas, Barbara Robidoux, Elizabeth Lee, Ana June, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Ariel Gore, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Candace Walsh, Hida Viloria, Cornelia Read, Miriam Sagan, James Reich, Kevin Atkinson, Katie Johnson, and Tomas Moniz. Praise for Santa Fe Noir “If you picture Santa Fe, New Mexico, only as a sunny, vibrant, colorful Southwest arts mecca, this anthology will shred that image with feral claws.” —Roundup Magazine “A veritable road map of the city and surrounding area. It stretches from El Dorado to the Southside, Casa Solana and Cerrillos Road to the Santa Fe National Forest. The protagonists of the stories are psychotherapists, vagrants, teenagers, and gig workers. They drink and smoke. They drop acid and have sex. And more than a few are guilty of murder (or at least of justifiable homicide).” —Pasatiempo “The book’s diverse group of writers will provide readers with unexpected perspectives on this centuries-old city and its people.” —Publishers Weekly “Readers will never look at hand-thrown pottery, heirloom tomatoes, or spectacular sunsets the same way again.” —Kirkus Reviews

Santa Fe Noir

Poetry. Written during the two years following the death of her husband, Miriam Sagan's THE WIDOW'S COAT paints landscapes of bleak astonishment that he is no longer alive, vivid images of his continued presence in the everyday experience of memory, and jumbled ranges of confusion and surprise as she finds herself once again in love with a childhood sweetheart. "When the worst befalls the best, sometimes amazed music occurs. Miriam Sagan eulogizes and exalts so that we're able to feel our own griefs while rejoicing that she has articulated loss so bravely and well"--Joan Logghe.

Miriam Sagan

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