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    The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West
    The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West
    The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West
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    The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West

    By Erv Schroeder, Bill McKibben, Marcia Bjornerud and Simon J. Ortiz

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    This intimate portrait of the Colorado Plateau celebrates the landscape in photographs and writing. Erv Schroeder’s photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth—the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures. Schroeder’s prints engage the viewer on an intimate level, acting as portals to contemplative worlds, inviting the viewer on an inner journey. As further guides to the landscape and its significance, he has invited indigenous writers—Natanya Ann Pulley, Rainy Dawn, Esther G. Belin, Orlando White, and Tacey M. Atsitty—to contribute poems that speak about these places. Celebrated Acoma storyteller Simon J. Ortiz introduces the photography and poetry with his musings on stone. In addition, an essay by geologist Marcia Bjornerud explores the geology of the region.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9780826354884
    The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West
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    Erv Schroeder

    Erv Schroeder is a photographer who also works as a user-interface analyst and graphic and web designer. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries all over the United States. He has been an artist in residence at the Petrified Forest National Park and a featured artist in F-Stop magazine.

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      Book preview

      The Memory of Stone - Erv Schroeder

      THE MEMORY OF STONE

      THE MEMORY OF STONE

      MEDITATIONS ON THE CANYONS OF THE WEST

      PHOTOGRAPHS BY Erv Schroeder

      FOREWORD BY Bill McKibben   ESSAY BY Marcia Bjornerud

      INTRODUCTION BY Simon J. Ortiz

      DEDICATION

      The seeds are planted early on: so it was with photography and me. I can remember my mother and I being guests in my father’s darkroom, watching him make the magic happen. The memory is very vivid. I was five. In my mind, I can see him performing gyrations with his hands in the cone of light the enlarger projected onto a piece of shiny, white photographic paper. There was a click. The light went out. He whisked the seemingly blank piece of paper into a black tray. Gently rocking the tray, the paper was covered with developer. He called it soup. I watched as a black-and-white image of a willow tree and a stone bridge slowly materialized. I was amazed that he could create something from nothing. It wasn’t until I had my first photography class in college that the roles were reversed, and he watched me make the magic happen. Soon after that, he ran out of time.

      This book is to honor him and even though he has been gone a long time . . . to say thank you.

      —Erv Schroeder

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD Bedrock, Bill McKibben

      ESSAY Rock Sky Time, Marcia Bjornerud

      INTRODUCTION Mark: Memory Is the Moment Now, Not the Past, Simon J. Ortiz

      POETRY

      The Way of Wind, Natanya Ann Pulley

      Time-Denier, Natanya Ann Pulley

      Spiral, Rainy Dawn

      Nascent, Orlando White

      Backbone, Esther G. Belin

      The Collective, Esther G. Belin

      Torso, Natanya Ann Pulley

      Hole through the Rock, Tacey M. Atsitty

      New World, Esther G. Belin

      Little Stone: A Morning Prayer While Running South Mountain Footslope, Simon J. Ortiz

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      CATALOG OF PHOTOGRAPHS

      ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      CONTRIBUTORS

      ABOUT THE ARTIST

      FOREWORD Bedrock

      My old friend, the late Ed Abbey, began his one true masterpiece, Desert Solitaire, with this charge to himself for his year amid the arches and balanced stones of the Moab red rock country: "The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to eliminate for good. I am here not only to escape for a while the clamor and filth and confusion

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