The river in winter
Subtitle: new and selected essays
By: Stanley Crawford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Water -- Social aspects -- New Mexico.; Country life -- New Mexico.; New Mexico -- Social life and customs.; New Mexico -- Rural conditions.
Description: A collection of short personal essays on the life of a writer, life in a small town, and the natural and human world of a river and its surroundings in New Mexico.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of lines; title: Reflections in mud; title: Boxes; title: A writer's rooms; title: A history of flat stones; title: Sitting by water; title: Acequia as teacher; title: Dancing for water; title: Free lunch; title: Saving the commons; title: Ancient acequia updated; title: The river in summer; title: Almost twins; title: Cottonwoods; title: Everybody needs a river; title: The ambassadors; title: The gourd people; title: Just too small; title: The tame and the wild; title: It takes a village to run a village; title: The village novel; title: Necropolis; title: Meetings; title: A farmer's bookshelf; title: How to get rightside up again.