'As the wind rises
and we try to live
it’s hot & dry, but it’s the wind
Kewa
Santa Ana
Tesque
Pueblo stucco simulacra
driedchilerevival
bricks of baked mud
The New Mexico Realtors Association
Calf Cañón
Cerro Pelado
Hermit’s Peak
Totally grammable
atardecerdeincendio
forestal
As the 5th age ends
and we try to live
but the wind….'
From: Sante Fe Qui Bono?
'As the winds of fascism and late-capitalist crisis sweep the US, what a deep comfort to see the country through Dan Eltringham’s perceptive eyes. I love these poems’ various singing, as they take in radiant particularities of deserts, mountains, lakes and rivers, landscapes shaped by waves of colonization and trade, the “hypervisible & invisible,” histories of revolt and histories of wildfire, moments when history might have been otherwise. These poems, full of grass and barbed wire, grain silos and anarchists, capture the beauty and tragedy of this settler-colonial project and the land that it has shaped, that shapes us in return. I’m grateful for the complexity and clarity of Dan’s vision, grateful he’s touched down here and brought back these accounts.’
- MC Hyland,
author of Walks and Weathers
(Beauty School Editions LLC, 2025)
'My Discovery of,' is a poetic journal of traveling America. Eltringham writes of borders and of states, of history and mythology, an exploration of place and the self in the 'untamed West,' where the 'cowboys are long gone,' and the rawness of urban sprawl tussles with the wildness of nature, the mountains remain and nations 'dissolve in collectivity.'
KV16
ISBN 978 1 917998 05 5
48 pp.
A6 pocket paperback.
Printed on fully recycled paper.
10 Copies signed by the author.
