Reflections in the Lizard's Eye

by Brandi, John

• ISBN13: 9781889921082
• ISBN10: 1889921084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Western Edge Pr

Summary

In this collection of essays, poet, painter, and world traveler John Brandi reveals his vision of the American Southwest, his home of thirty years. Brandi's lyrical writing captures the desert's wild, open spaces and leads readers into the abodes of remote desert dwellers.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Into the Dream Maze	2	(14)
Big Waters	16	(14)
A Place in the Rocks I Won't Give Directions To	30	(18)
Everyday Miracles	48	(8)
A River Walk, or Notes on the ``Writer's Life''	56	(10)
Coming into the Canyon	66	(14)
Trigger of Light	80	(16)
The Cowboy from Phantom Banks	96	(10)
Lost Again Where Lines Grow Thin	106	(16)
The Zen of Trucking	122	(8)
A Luminous Uplift	130	(22)
Desert Rat, Planet Citizen	152	(16)
Elegy for My Father	168	(19)
Notes	187