The Voice of the Borderlands - Hardcover

Drum Hadley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 188789683X ISBN 13: 9781887896832

Publisher: Rio Nuevo, 2005

Synopsis

Drum Hadley's poems, said Allen Ginsberg, are "like time and death." Gathering forty years of Hadley's work, this extraordinary collection ranges from powerful lyrics to droll Western "haiku":

A Long Day's Ride
My horse looks smaller than it did when I left.

It also commemorates one man's richly eventful career as a poet, rancher, and dedicated conservationist. A friend and literary associate of writers including Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, Hadley is a poet of and for the land he has helped to preserve:

Wash me along the rims of arroyo rocks,
Carry the dust, carry the sands,
Carry these words, my seeds,
Down these blue desert valleys, away.

About this title

About the Author:

Drum Hadley has lived and worked for forty years along the Mexico-New Mexico-Arizona border, first as a cowboy, then as a rancher. He is the author of three previous books of poetry. He founded the Animas Foundation, which supports sustainable agriculture in harmony with the environment. He is also a founding member of the Malpai Borderlands Group, a community-based ecosystem management project. Hadley lives in the Arizona-New Mexico borderlands. Gary Snyder has published eighteen books in more than twenty different languages. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1969-70 and the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is a professor of English at UC Davis, California. Andrew Rush is a printmaker and also works in watercolor and clay. He has illustrated many books, including Voice Crying in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey and The Rule of Two: Observations on Close Relationships by Ann Woodin. He has previously collaborated with Hadley on a series of broadsides. Rush lives in Oracle, Arizona.

Review:

Drum Hadley's work is absolutely fresh as a mountain stream. This book does honor to the ancient art of storytelling. --Jim Harrison

Magnificent...Through all of those voices I can hear the voice of the land. --William deBuys

About this edition

• Publisher: Rio Nuevo
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 188789683X
• ISBN 13: 9781887896832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448