Delicate Arch
Published on 18. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
58 pages
978-1-64662-790-5 (ISBN)
Description
Much of Delicate Arch is the result of a 6,000-mile trip my wife and I took in the fall of 2019, when we visited many national parks and monuments. Previous and subsequent journeys have expanded its scope. My first experience of the national parks occurred over sixty years ago during a summer road trip with my mother and three sisters. I never forgot that first view of the Grand Canyon. The immensity of Time, the diversity of Nature, Man's capacity for wonder-in our national parks and monuments you experience that trinity for yourself. It is spiritual and holy in the truest sense. I thought that poems fostered by photographs was the best means for me to convey my own experiences. Reader, if you have not yet had the adventure, this book is an invitation to do so. If you have, then your own memories of these places will find resonance here. Seeing is believing. Parks and monuments included are Arches, Bryce, Casa Grande Ruins, Crater Lake, Craters of the Moon, Dry Tortugas, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon (North and South Rims), Great Basin, Hagerman Fossil Beds, Hells Canyon, Kings Canyon, Lewis and Clark, Montezuma Castle, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Olympic, Saguaro, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Zion. The book includes twenty-three pages of original color photographs.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64662-790-5 (9781646627905)
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John Delaney retired after 35 years in the Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections of Princeton University Library, where he was head of manuscripts processing and then, for his last 15 years, curator of historic maps. He has written a number of works on cartography, including Strait Through: Magellan to Cook and the Pacific; First X, Then Y, Now Z: An Introduction to Landmark Thematic Maps; and Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888. These have extensive website versions.He has written poems for most of his life, and, in the 1970s, he attended the Writing Program of Syracuse University, where his mentors were poets W. D. Snodgrass and Philip Booth. No doubt, in subtle ways, they have bookended his approach to poems. His publications include Waypoints (2017), a collection of place poems, Twenty Questions (2019), a chapbook, Delicate Arch (2022), poems and photographs of national parks and monuments, Galápagos (2023), a collaborative chapbook of his son Andrew's photographs and his poems, and Nile (2024), a chapbook of poems and photographs about Egypt. He lives in Port Townsend, WA.