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la puerta, Taos the art of fetching Sky,  Vol. 1      (check out volume TWO!)


“A biography of place”, volume one of la Puerta, Taos is a bl/wh collection of photos/art, poetry and stories from Taos, New Mexico.


“Readers of this vibrant collection will feel reassured that the creative spirit of Taos is alive and well, even in these troubled times. The creative spirit here has not been quenched by the horrors of war. In fact, it burns brighter as a symbolic torch illuminating the drawing together of unique individuals committed to working with each other in positive creative connection.”
--Barbara Waters, editor Pure Waters



A tribute to Northern New Mexico’s artists and literary landscape, this first volume of la Puerta, Taos is a trek into the labyrinth of Taos, an old American “artist colony”. The collection ranges from rares stories about the Tiwa (“Taos Pueblo People”) by sculptor/activist John Suazo, Tiwa to a John Nichols anti-war speech “Art Against Empire” by way of “spanglish” from Taos Poetry circus extraordinaire, Amalio Madueño.


Synergy between art/written word is the signature of Vol. 1 and is created via images from CA/T (Contemporary Art/Taos-from the Harwood Museum 80th celebration) --including poignant photos by Megan Bowers from her “Saints and Angels” series--and timeless landscape photo/art by renowned Taoseño, Gail Russell. These are fused with poems and snippets of written/oral lore from writers of the region—a Grandpa story from Robert Mirabal and Frank Water’s tribute by his biographer John Nizalowski. Overall this volume-- including sections which explore Land: “the mountain”, how artists arrived in Taos: “paseo” and an opening to other worlds, how to survive these times: “la puerta” – is best described by Barbara Waters in her Foreword to the book:
“Readers of this vibrant collection will feel reassured that the creative spirit of Taos is alive and well, even in these troubled times. The creative spirit here has not been quenched by the horrors of war. In fact, it burns brighter as a symbolic torch illuminating the drawing together of unique individuals committed to working with each other in positive creative connection.”


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from
volume one

Taos Mouse

I fished a half-drowned mouse by the tail
Out of the motel pool this morning.

After watching it sputter around on the deck
I realized it wouldn’t get out of the pool area
By itself alive,

So I tailed it again and set it through
The wrought iron fence onto the grass.

We are all in over our heads.

-Charles Potts


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