From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it."To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance
Scotty's family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of busi
Set in the early 1990s, Village explores a day in the life of the fictional Northern New Mexico village of San Marcos, through the points of view of a dozen characters: an aging mayordomo, the owners
Fiction. Originally published in 1967, TRAVEL NOTES is a hallucinogenic dream journey thru the incomparable mind that subsequently brought us Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, then dropped off the
In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person.Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his
Seed is the story of Bill Starr’s final days. Childless but with a lifetime’s worth of possessions and a nearly infinite web of extended family, Bill endeavors to empty his house completely before he
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the
This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their
"Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ."So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know
Throughout his life Stanley Kunitz has been creating poetry and tending gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations - none previously published - that took place between 2002 and 2004. Be
