At the Far End of o Street

"How can we plant speech, so delicate it cannot long survive in air, in the willing field of a blank page and watch it rise like rare vines in the full moon, unfurling in horizontal rows, till it becomes a live garden of sense all bonneted with bees and bloom and blood? How can a stranger then tilt her face toward the page and be burnt by meaning?" Carol Haralson is a lifelong booklover, writer, editor, and professional designer. After years of producing warmly acclaimed books for...
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"How can we plant speech, so delicate it cannot long survive in air, in the willing field of a blank page and watch it rise like rare vines in the full moon, unfurling in horizontal rows, till it becomes a live garden of sense all bonneted with bees and bloom and blood? How can a stranger then tilt her face toward the page and be burnt by meaning?" Carol Haralson is a lifelong booklover, writer, editor, and professional designer. After years of producing warmly acclaimed books for chefs, artists, museums, photographers, national parks, and many others, she has gathered her own "true accounts and little fictions" into an illustrated volume. The text ranges across many forms, from compact fiction and insightful memoir to funny and acutely observed essays to memorable poems (the author was the first winner of the Pablo Neruda Award for Poetry before beginning her career as a book designer). Accompanying photomontages created for the book are reproduced in rich color. The author's expressed intention is to make readers welcome, offer them the freedom to wander, entertain them well, and send them home with an armload of gifts. 208 pages. Sewn flexibound. Illustrated in full color. 9.5 x 7 inches.