1980, oversize hardcover edition, oblong format, edition limited to 2,000 copies, Northland Press, Flagstaff, AZ. 64 pages. Beautiful color photography. The author has produced many books of value over the years.

Where Water Flows: The Rivers of Arizona

LGBTQ+ Books

Lawrence Clark Powell

Literature & Fiction

NORTHLAND PRESS

SECOND PRINTING. 1987 Northland Press trade paperback, Lawrence Clark Powell (Southwest classics: the creative literature of the arid lands: Essays on the books and their writers). A collection of essays on the people and places that make the southwest a true wonder of the world.

From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond

History

Americas

NORTHLAND PUBLISHING+

The novel is really a series of five linked stories, each about a woman he (or his narrator) loved while in France. Powell's book is really about those moments of falling in love, and the varied trajectories such affairs can take, with Nancy, Erda, Joyce, Madeleine, and Martha. Powell wrote quickly, by which I don't mean he wrote his prose in a blaze of flying fingers (he may have, but I don't know he did). What I mean is he is economical, and his prose moves along. Five love affairs in 122 pages requires a certain pace, after all. But he wrote, also, beautifully, setting a scene, a moment, with cinematic surety. "I saw her on the platform as the train came to a stop: wind-blown blonde hair, expectant face, thin, worried and frowning, wrapped in a gray tweed coat." That is Nancy, a 25-year-old with a problem. The problem is about sex ("I never felt anything," she says), but the two have promised that their relationship would be platonic, so Jack should not be the problem. But, of course, Jack becomes, in part, the solution. Jack's quick passions and warm affection for women as a whole are wonderfully presented, honest and real. He is neither sentimental nor judgmental. The five short affairs slide by too quickly, and the reader is left as bereft as lonely Jack. And yet the novel is not depressing. As Henry Miller says, THE BLUE TRAIN has freshness that makes one re-live his own life, but (says Miller) "I like your life better." I know what he means. One longs for such a sad sweetness. ( Amazon customer)

The Blue Train

Capra Press

This well-crafted second novel describes a vast river running between cultures, where the Arizona landscape mirrors the geography of the soul. Even the erotic longing and tenderness cannot bridge the river between lovers. The final moments of this novel gleam with the splendor of a desert sunset - of cinnamon-colored mesas seen from a distance, of food, red wine, generous love and deep sleep. -- Kevin Starr, San Francisco Examiner

The River Between

California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State : Essays on the Books and Their Writers

United States

Capra Pr

A collection of memorable essays that engage the reader because they speak to the mind as well as to the heart. for this reason Lawrence Clark Powell's writing has lasting power.

Landscape and Literature: The Essays of Lawrence Clark Powell in the Southwest Review

History & Criticism

DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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