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Winona Heeley spent the last year of recovery from eating disorders in rural Japan, at Michikusa House, alongside one other full-time resident: Jun Nakashima. Like Winona, Jun was a recovering addict and college dropout. While they bonded over rituals of growing their own food and preparing meals, they changed each other's lives by reconstructing long-held beliefs about shame, identity, and renewal.But after Winona returns to her Midwest hometown, Jun vanishes.Two years pass and Winona, seeking revival through gardening, accepts a job as a groundskeeper at a local cemetery...and begins searching for Jun Nakashima once more.

Letters to Michelangelo from Wyoming is a collection of epistolary or letter poems to the Masters of the Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo DaVinci and others. These letter poems were inspired from the poet Burt Bradley's journey to Italy with the celebrated Wyoming painter John Giarrizzo. They collaborated on drawings and poems as they visited Rome, Florence, and Milan. Not as tourists, but to see Italy through the eyes of their respective art. Their visit was a pilgrimage, particularly to "meet" the Old Masters "up close and personal" through their paintings and sculpture.Returning to Wyoming, Bradley found himself not ready to sever the rich connection with the Masters and began to see Wyoming's beauty through their eyes. The poet drew inspiration from the letter poems of Richard Hugo, David Citino, and Jim Harrison's Letters to Yesenin, as well as Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve and Letters from the Earth.Accompanying the poetic letters are Bradley's Italian poems that, along with Giarrizzo's drawings, reflect upon the masterpieces of sculpture and painting: Michelangelo's David, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, and Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Mathew, among others. The rich descriptions of these poems complement the "Letters" that narrate Bradley's own art of living in the rough-hewn beauty and weather-challenged landscape of Wyoming.

"The Mystery Still Drives Us is a prismatic, mysterious read that will thoroughly envelop you and usher you along on a poetic journey that will leave an undeniable, indelible mark. These billowing, prayerful reflections of longing will open you to the mystery."-Frank LaRue Owen, author of award-winning The School of Soft-Attention"One part beautifully illuminated love story, one part elongated human heartbreak, and a third part warning signs for a broken and beautiful world. McDowell photographs the curves of the earth and the sharpness of desire with the deep clarity only a poet can reveal, while somehow offering up a balm for all of us, poet and pedestrian alike."-Thomas Qualls, author of the award-winning novel The Painted Oxen"This is poetry for the soul and for the body, sensuous and textured-alive. Its rhythms and themes are familiar, but still fresh, at once quotidian and accessible, but still mysterious. You'll want to sit with The Mystery Still Drives Us under a tree, carry it around with you and read and re-read; for it offers, in some small way, in its subtle and slow depth, an antidote to the superficiality and busy-ness of our world."-Theodore Richards, award-winning author of Cosmosophia