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TOUCHED / TOCADO
Revelations at San Ignacio Lagoon
Spirit ≈ Science ≈ People ≈ Action
Essays by Steven Nightingale, Steven L. Swartz, Pancho Mayoral, and Richard J. Nevle
Bi-lingual (English & Spanish)
Soft cover with 16-page color insert
$25
Laguna San Ignacio, along the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico, is one of the most extraordinary places in the world. It is the winter breeding and birthing ground of the gray whale. Just here, and nowhere else on Earth, the whales will approach a boat: they will come to be touched, to play, and to romp and frolic with their newborns, who rise to our hands with antic curiosity and affection. They bring not just themselves: they bring a new world, the one even now in creation. Here is the Laguna. It is a place of transformative power and beauty, of wonderment at being literally in touch with so intelligent and generous a life form. This book is meant to show the whole: in four essays, it unites spirit, science, people, and activism. It is the union we can use to make a future together.
As an antidote to despair, the gray whale’s recovery is one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories. If you’re lucky enough to visit San Ignacio Lagoon at the right time, you can touch a gray whale—just like Pachico Mayoral did all those years ago. If you can’t make that pilgrimage, touch the whales by reading this book. In either case you will be touched in return.
—Rob Jackson
Stanford University climate scientist
Chair of the Global Carbon Project
author of Into the Clear Blue Sky
Published April 2023
Paper cover with French fold
$15
In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holds both fine, honest sensuality and slow explorations of soul.What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierce openness that refuses nothing—that knows damage and healing, darkness and radiance, sorrow and winged resurgence, reflection and laughter and learning.
Those fortunate enough to read this woven book of healing will understand what it is to be honest, afraid, overwhelmed and redeemed. It reminds us that we are all part dust and part star.
—aaron a. abeyta
Winner of the American Book Award
& Colorado Book Award
RUSTY BARBED WIRE
David Lee
Published April 2022
Hardcover with dust jacket
$20.00
Cover art by Phyllis Shafer
Treading not so much in but companionably, often chattily, alongside the footprints of Hesiod and Milton; of Christopher Smart, Robert Creeley, William Stafford, and the Prophets; and later of John Ashbery and Elinor Wilner, David Lee’s poems range from narratives exploring rural life and hard work in muddy, bloody, often profane detail to crystalline lyrics and passionate, brainy musical meditations. In them, Lee carves a poetic path entirely his own, one unique in American poetry in how it joins true erudition with the deep forms of understanding laid down in the callouses and sinews of a hard-working body. As his inimitable voice and vision develop through this book, which selects from poems published across forty years, it brings the reader finally to what has been coming all along: an encounter with the expansive, exhilarating zone of eternity.
–Katherine Coles
author of Wayward and The Earth Is Not Flat