Book Description"Anyone who has walked the dry, dusty hills outside Alpine, at the foot of the Davis Mountains, will know a little of what Larry Thomas writes about, with mastery and skill, and deep understanding Larry Thomas grew up in this hot, dry country, where survival was everything, and the terrors of nature were spiritual lessons His ожшнп poems, taut, taciturn, chiseled out of the silence he learned there, are achingly pure lyrics and are fables in their own way These poems celebrate a placeI love, a hard place, but one of rare beauty and depth, and, in its own way, an altar of strange gods "--Paul Christensen "With intensity and delight, Larry Thomas evokes two major concerns in his new volume: the drama of the land and the wonders of perception And again, as we've seen in his finer work before, it's the immediacy of story that gives his work its gritty yet lyrical texture "--James Hoggard "Where Skulls Speak Wind glitters like a mosaic In each poem, Larry Thomas reveals a facet of life in the unforgiving but luminous landscape of the Southwest: cobalt skies over Taos, the silence of a ghost town where 'a rustle of wind is a scream,' a small village 'peppering the mountainside / like fragments of a torn piñata ' Seamlessly interweaving ancestral triumphs and losses with the larger workings of geography and culture, Thomas makes believers, and admirers, of us all "--Carol Coffee Reposa.  Languag2004 г 80 стр ISBN 1881515648.