Special Offer: For the month of June, 2015, John Nizalowski will donate to the Frank Waters Foundation all his royalties from the sale of Land of Cinnamon Sun: Essays on Family, Mythology, and the American West. So, during June, you can add this great book to your Southwestern collection and help out the Frank Waters Foundation at the same time. Irie Books, $12.99: Available through Amazon.com.,www.barnesandnoble.com, and through Ingram distributors from your local bookstore (price may vary).
From the back cover:
In Land of Cinnamon Sun, essayist John Nizalowski explores the western experience through the lenses of family, mythology, and the natural world. Here we find red rock canyons, ancient Pueblo Indian cities, and sublime natural bridges connected with the daily realities of contemporary life, a cosmology inspired by Mesoamerican legends, and the frontiers of modern physics. In the tradition of Frank Waters and Terry Tempest Williams, John Nizalowski has written a book that is more than a collection of essays; it is, as described by author Gerald Hausman, “a novel in verse disguised as prose.”
“John Nizalowski deploys through his writings a rhetoric of universals – the timeless, the boundless – in order to evoke in us a feeling of cosmos, not chaos.” – Alexander Blackburn, author of A Sunrise Brighter Still: the Visionary Novels of Frank Waters
“Nizalowski’s prose is pointed, gritty, unsparing in its detail and savagely honest….” – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Telluride Magazine
