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New Mexico "The Land of Enchantment" — Motto: "Crescit eundo" (It grows as it goes)

Noli in Spiritu Combueri (Refuse to be Burnt Out) — Edward Sanders

Say No to the Military Industrial Golf Complex

 

nanao sakaki

Nanao Sakaki

People will gather for remembering Nanao at a tipi in Arroyo Seco
at Snow Mansion hostel on June 1 evening.
Then June 2 people will climb El Salto mountain to scatter his ashes.
Three Japanese friends will arrive from Tokyo to join this event.
Japanese lady named Non is organizing this. She lives in Trinidad, Colo..
Another Japanese lady named Yukari, who lives in Boulder, will join also.
Perhaps you know people who should know this,
people who were close to Nanao in special ways.
Anyone ok. Non says ok to tell people who were good friends of Nanao.
Yukari wants to keep it small and reverent.
Non says with Nanao, probably impossible.
Just tell people.

Best thoughts,
Carol Merrill

 

NANAO

Brilliant orange sunrise today

Over snowy Sandia Mountains

Four sandhill cranes

fly south long Rio Grande

Nanao died today

in Japanese mountains

Left his backpak against the wall—

For whom will red-tail hawk fly?

For whom will river otter play?

C.S. Merrill
December 2008
Winter Solstice
Corrales, New Mexico USA

 

issa nanao

from Inch by Inch :: Issa translated by Nanao


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Ancient village, little streets, hang-tough neighborhoods, irrigation ditches, the North Valley,“lost garden” in sprawl culture, the small with the big, Alameda, road of trees. Boulevard of oasis, worn path, a way—enduring ecology of beauty—as in the Navajo word for "beauty"—hozhó :: balance or harmony; & the effort toward.

Funky, but lovely. Persistent dreams on the edge of town. Flowers in a vase. What seems radiant surrounding us—we feel permeates, travels on grapevines & wavelengths. Or, exactly opposite, some core mystery acts as magnet drawing close kindred spirits from elsewhere. Regional, then, manifests within a connective sense beyond territory.

Long live Muses of every stripe & persuasion! We prefer odd ducks, the weathered, the water-smart, lyrical cooks, & the grateful. Out of such grows a unique, honed elegance,a shapely mind leading to a shapely life. We regard this as the tradition of literature in these parts—songs for inhabitants.

 

HISTORY

La Alameda Press began on a kitchen table with the production of Kate Horsley’s novel Crazy Woman in 1992 and we are still at it. Perhaps it would be more accurate to classify us as a micro-press since we operate out of our house by the skin of our teeth. We try to make beautiful books of artistic and cultural merit. Many, but not all, of our titles are poetry because we believe poetry is an essential artform in all of its sincerity, various passions, experimentalism, and wisdom.

 

BUSINESS

The best way to support small press literature is to buy a book! This simple website is your opportunity to help us directly. We also recommend patronizing your favorite independent bookstore, hopefully one owned and staffed by knowledgeable people who care about what's on their shelves. Our books are distributed to the trade via the University of New Mexico Press and Small Press Distribution. You can also find our books at Amazon.com. Please see our Ordering Info for website addresses. Any of these places will enable you to have a secure credit card transaction. Or use our printable order form which you can fill out and send in with a check.

The La Alameda Press website includes our catalog; news concerning our authors as we catch wind of their further activities; information about the graphic design end of things (i.e. making a living); the diehard artistic pursuits of both J.B. Bryan (painting, poetry, printing, music, & clay) and Cirrelda Snider-Bryan (clay & illustrations); and a somewhat obsessive bevy of links (which if one connects the dots— spells out an underlying aesthetic and perhaps a sense of community). We hope that this website has a sense of life beyond the marketplace.

 

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