{"product_id":"riding-the-wheel-9781639805921","title":"Riding the Wheel","description":"Peter Anderson's dispatches from the western slope of the Sangre de Cristos appeared for many years in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eColorado Central Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrestone Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiding the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e gathers and distills many of those seasonal meditations into a lyrical almanac that affirms and celebrates the great wheel of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, Peter Anderson's home ground, is brought to life in this gathering of lyric essays, prose poems, and exquisite haikus. With him, we enjoy \"creekside meditations on moving water,\" travel the \"cosmic highway\" on moonless nights where \"distance has its way with you,\" outrun a wind-driven \"man-eating dune,\" get to know the neighbors, both two-legged and four, in a \"little town at the end of the road,\" and best of all celebrate the \"good news\" of a world that, despite these \"precarious times,\" continually and forever renews itself.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Kempa, Editor\/Publisher, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Wild Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePete Anderson brings his own vernacular to the Japanese tradition of haibun, in which prose meets haiku and form is as prone to change as the seasons. Mystical and charming all at once, here we are given that rare alchemy of language and landscape, silence and sound, wilderness and wonder. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Videlock, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWise to the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, poet laureate of Western Colorado \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiding the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAnderson has crafted a paean to place, nature and living in the tradition of so many other fine writers-Barry Lopez comes to mind. To read a writer so in tune with nature, with rhythm, with the vicissitudes of life is to encounter the places, moments and prayers of Anderson's home as though we are there ourselves. We encounter not just the passing of seasons, not just a writer completely and skillfully in tune with their craft, but a tribute to life-and by life I mean love. The reader might not realize at first that they are witness to this love, but what leaps from the page lingers and haunts in the most reverberating and blessed ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eaaron a. abeyta, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eColcha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the American Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777290600722,"sku":"9781639805921","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bb87c4f2-71be-450b-bea1-9db664812b01.jpg?v=1765359611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/riding-the-wheel-9781639805921","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}