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December 2006: *Taos Mountain*
Early 2007 will see the publication of a new, full-length Robert Sund book of poetry, *Taos Mountain.* This work derives from a large manuscript written during a three-month stay with friends Arthur and Ginny Greeno in Taos, New Mexico, during the Spring of 1991. The close attention to nature and the celebration of craft and meditation that have always characterized Sund's poetry are here brought to bear on the landscape of Taos, its surroundings, and its people.

Faithful to Sund's stated wishes, this book was posthumously edited by longtime friend and fellow poet, Chip Hughes, who over a period of four years created a book comprising fifty-four poems and six prose pieces.

This first, special edition of *Taos Mountain* is illustrated with seventeen high-quality digital reproductions of Sund's paintings, the majority of them examples of the delicately beautiful "blanket paintings" that he began to create while in Taos. They complement and extend the vision of this poetry, with its recurrent imagery of weaver and loom and colored thread, and of spiritual presence in craft, landscape, and dream.

This oversize, hardbound, linen-covered and beautifully dustjacketed edition of *Taos Mountain,* with four-color printing throughout, is being published by the Poet's House Press, and will be available through direct order via this website, as well as through selected bookstores in western Washington and in New Mexico. Look for a newly added "Order Books" link on our home page (appearing soon!), through which not only *Taos Mountain,* but *Poems From Ish River Country: Collected Poems & Translations* (in both hardcover and paperback versions), and the chapbook of Sund's haiku translations, "Bringing Friends Over," will be available for purchase.

Happy Holidays, and check back for an update on the precise publication date of *Taos Mountain*!
 
 


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