This is a gem of a book, collecting [[Sam Shepard]]'s writing on New Mexico and Ed Ruscha's photography. The short selections of Shepard's writing can be found in his other books, but lining them up together here heightens their sense of place, and his own love for it. Shepard spent a good part of his life in New Mexico, eventually signing on as a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. His ear for the voice of the place, and his eye for the landscape and local culture casts him as a favored son. Like a true poet, he sees and hears the poetry in mundanity, pulling his subjects into a mystical world as he describes them. While I am highly recommending this one, it's a limited edition and hard to come by. But it's worth the effort.

5 bones!!!!!
Highly recommended. ( )