{"title":"Stanley Crawford","description":"Stanley Crawford (1937-2024) wrote and farmed with his late wife Rosemary in Northern New Mexico from 1969 until his passing. He was the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction and was the recipient of two NEA writing fellowships and a three-year Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writing Award. In his later years, he taught at Colorado College and with the UMass Amherst MFA Writing Program.","products":[{"product_id":"log-of-the-s-s-the-mrs-unguentine-paperback","title":"Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLog of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as \"Mrs. Unguentine,\" the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas together, alone on a giant land-covered barge of their own devising. They tend their gardens, raise a child, invent an artificial forest-all the while steering clear of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarely has a book so perfectly registered the secret solitude of marriage, how shared loneliness can result in a powerful bond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374955987167,"sku":"9781628975628","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TxugGySLtG9781628975628.webp?v=1789189449"},{"product_id":"the-river-in-winter-new-and-selected-essays-paperback","title":"The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their home-made house is written in the hand-plastered floor, patched and sealed over the years. At first a reminder of how little he and his wife knew about working with mud, the floor has become beautiful in the years since 1971. It embodies their lives, the ways things have changed and the ways things have stayed the same. \"A mud floor is perfectly sustainable, being infinitely repairable and finally recyclable.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reflections in Mud,\" Crawford's essay about the floor, is one of the many pieces collected in this book about his life in northern New Mexico. The novelist who didn't know how to lay a mud floor is now a seasoned farmer, irrigator, and northern New Mexico villager, and the essays on these subjects that he has been writing since the 1980s continue the work he began in \u003ci\u003eMayordomo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Garlic Testament\u003c\/i\u003e as an articulator of values that are out of synch and out of scale with the suburban lives of most Americans in the twenty-first century. Whether he is writing about the river whose water irrigates his land, the plants and animals with which he lives, or the continuing struggle he and his neighbors must engage in if their small farms and farmers markets are to survive, Crawford's thoughtful, witty essays are the kinds of summing up that his fans have been cutting out of periodicals for years. Now that they are in book form we can all throw away the clippings, reread the essays, and give the book to friends who have yet to discover the pleasure of reading Stanley Crawford.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376677552351,"sku":"9780826328588","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DXfyhla3sL9780826328588.webp?v=1789221670"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/stanley-crawford.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}