Pinyon Publishing

"Wonder, attention, journey, stillness―Tracy Balzer's book explores the very lineaments of the spiritual life. In reflecting on these themes, Balzer draws, of course, on Scripture, but also on...

"This is a poetry of deep spiritual longing and inquiry, quietly urgent-a lyricism that's intuitively right, a vision that's the steady but bemused gaze of intelligence. Diane Vreuls' saints might be...

Martha McFerren looks for wisdom in the world around her, which includes the past and its narrative expression in myth. She profoundly feels that those before us were like us, that they mean...

In Everything Barren will be Blessed the images are immediate and memorable, of hot Southern California valleys and desert populated with wild and civilized life-coyotes, hawks, egrets, pistachio and...

In OPHELIA'S GHOST (set in the American Southwest in 1958) Eva, an anthropologist in her mid-30s, disappears from her campsite in the Canyons of the Ancients. As local tracker Joe Hill searches for...

"How direct and fierce Stuart Friebert's poems are. His collection Floating Heart draws from the reservoir of memory re-lived and re-suffered. Unsparing and searching, shining with lucidity,...

"Ken Fontenot is one of the most original, moving poets in the world. I have treasured his work for years-his images startle us awake. His wisdom sears."-Naomi Shihab Nye, a Chancellor of the Academy...

"In Intimacies & Other Devices Kurt Heinzelman has created a marvelous hommage to the erotic in all its forms and manifestations, a world in which, as he so originally puts it, taste's 'one true...

Ken Fontenot's fourth book of poems continues the fine balance of "things both practical and sublime" that he developed with subtlety and flare in his previous book, In a Kingdom of Birds-poems that...

Insane, witty, hilarious, ironical, sincere, grumpy, and original, Chuck Taylor brings together in Magical, Fantastical, Alphabetical Soup the alpha and omega of existence in a series of mini...

Author and poet Barbara Schmitz offers a heartful, funny, and deeply moving "spiritual autobiography" that brings the reader along on each stage of her fervent inner quest for mystical experience...

Pinyon Review, May 2012, Number 1Celebrating the Arts and SciencesThe Fool on the Hill by Gary Lee EntsmingerThree Poems by Dabney StuartCoulter Country by Gerald L. BrodyThree Paintings by Susan E...

"Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman's poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once ... always a pleasure.""-Lawrence Raab, author of April at the Ruins"Heinzelman's poems...

"One might slip into a cave without a torch and imagine a language of foot scuttle and wing whinny, imagine that one must make from these consonants and vowels a lyric, a metaphysics-such is the...

One is bound to ask who Wu Xing was and what were the particulars of his life. Was he a mountain sage hailing from a distant time and far off place? Was his teacher Do Sa the prophet of a lost...

The poems in TIME'S BODY show Dabney Stuart's usual wide range of subjects: from baseball to quantum physics, the American southwest to New Zealand, Paul C?zanne to George Herbert. The suggestion of...

In TWO MILES WEST, imagination, memory, and dream entwine to create voices that leap metaphysical boundaries. Entsminger asks us to suppose "a time space lattice / imposed by a mind / composing...

Flooding is a serious problem for plants. As with humans, when plants (and plant roots, in particular) that normally live out of water are submerged underwater, they suffocate. But plants that...

WINGMAKERS combines Britny Cordera's lyric and prose poems with David Burton's illustrations to create an imaginative world of animal lore. Through the eyes of the muse, Urania, and the creatures of...