STONE WIND WATER
Poems
by David Lee

In the enduring power of its language, Stone Wind Water turns geological time into sacred time, vista into scripture, as the desert is given voice and abiding presence. Symphonic in tonal range, alive in rich detail, large in design—seasonal, musical, diurnal and devotional, these poems almost imperceptibly infuse centuries of literary and spiritual practice into the living body of the land in this great hymn to the Earth.

—Eleanor Wilner
author of  The Girl With Bees in Her Hair

There may be some readers who are surprised that the master of the cautionary tale in our time, a man who could, at any moment, open a deep wound in you, even while you were laughing, might also be a poet of calm meditation, a holy observer of the indifferent, available world.  Lee is one of those.

—Sam Green
Washington State Poet Laureate

David Lee’s Stone  Wind  Water is a lover’s whisper, a seduction and ecstatic cry to the deserts of the American Southwest. Lee dedicates his doyen senses to this vast, unknowable landscape, making it both intimate and vivid.  These poems remind us once again why David Lee is one of our finest poets, a genuine American institution.

—Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner
author of Dancing Naked

In this beautiful new book from Black Rock Press, David Lee has done it again--he’s created his own theology of beauty.  In this book, readers will come upon a poetry so elegantly crafted that even technique will break their hearts. 

—Gailmarie Pahmeier
author of What Emma Loves

 

David Lee is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry including So Quietly the Earth, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. In 1997 he was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate and has received the Utah Governor’s award for lifetime achievement in the arts. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he has a Ph.D. with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton. He taught in the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University for three decades, where he received every teaching award presented, including teacher of the year three times.