Naked Ladies on the Road: Poems

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Sunstone Press, 2005 - 108 страница
"How many roads have been memorialized in poetry? Can't think of one?" the author asks. "Let me suggest Santa Fe's Canyon Road, the Art and Soul of Santa Fe, ' he replies, "celebrated and legendary. But in the eyes of some, the City Different, as Santa Fe is called, a national treasure, the nation's highest capital, has become a high desert Disneyland, a small city in search of an identify, 'tourist-town U.S.A., ' a caricature of itself. That's just my opinion, of course. I think this book humanizes some wonders and some warts." The author, who lived "off the Road" for close to 20 years, uses poetry, often in formal form, to capture and capsulize the inconsistencies between the City of the Holy Faith and its sometimes indelicate "Road," while evoking and provoking emotions, the purpose of poetry. You will be pleased you joined us. Mike Sutin is a commercial lawyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and serves as pro-bono counsel to PEN New Mexico and the New Mexico Book Association. He is a member of both. His volunteer work for his street and neighborhood, and directorships on his neighborhood association and business and economic development organizations, afford insider sensitivity into the good, bad and ugly of Santa Fe's Canyon Road. His poems have appeared in local, regional, and national small presses, and anthologies.

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Страница 84 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Страница 103 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Страница 101 - Oh, East is East, and West is West And never the twain shall meet, Til Earth and Sky stand presently At God's great Judgment Seat...
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Страница 86 - My ancient soul yearns for the sacred feminine energies inside the earth, the moon, the universe, and I pray "the Indian way" of my ancestors for all these things.
Страница 86 - In the name of the Virgencita de Guadalupe ... 1 confess that I am a Guadalupana and a Buddhist. Bless me Guadalupe-Tonantzin, for I do not pray to you the way my mother does. I see you as the female face of sacred life, Grandmother Earth; the feminine presence of God, of Life, of Creation itself. When Buddhist teachers asked me to relinquish you years ago. it was violating. I returned you, La Lupita, to my home. I could not break my mother's rosary.
Страница 103 - Wilson in his latest book, The Future of Life. If nothing more is done, one-fifth of all the plants and animal species now on earth could be gone or on the road to extinction by 2030,
Страница 84 - Curator of Contemporary Hispano and Latino Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fc.

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Mike Sutin is a commercial lawyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and serves as pro-bono counsel to PEN New Mexico and the New Mexico Book Association. He is a member of both. His volunteer work for his street and neighborhood, and directorships on his neighborhood association and business and economic development organizations, afford insider sensitivity into the good, bad and ugly of Santa Fes Canyon Road. His poems have appeared in local, regional, and national small presses, and anthologies. His first book of poems, Voices from the Corner/Voces del Rincon (Pennywhistle Press, 2001), greeted with critical acclaim, is an investigation into idiosyncracies gathered from the corners of complex Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo interrelationships in New Mexico. An astute observer of the human condition, his insights into Santa Fes societal and cultural life cycles continue in Naked Ladies. Recognition of Mikes position as a major lawyer-poet in the United States is evidenced by his inclusion in Off the Record, a poetry anthology of the Legal Studies Forum, representing the first effort of a United States legal journal to devote an entire issue to poetry. Mike has published a number of legal articles in national and state venues. A member of the Santa Fe Live Poets Society, he has lived in New Mexico since 1946.

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