MAENAM, Of Water, Of Light

MAENAM, Of Water, of Light is a collaborative book of art: photographs by American artist Galen Garwood with poems by seven remarkable poets: William O'Daly, Sam Hamill, Peter Weltner, Lindqa Gregg, Jeane Morel, James Broughton, and Emily Warn. "The power and grace of these poems and photographs also come from their specificity to their own makers, which, while we readers and viewers can never precisely share, can still be profoundly moved by them nonetheless. We haven't been to Galen Garwood's home on the edge of the Maerim River, but his images still carry an expansive quality that encompasses so much: the repetition of a ripple, the roll of a wave, the water that becomes a landscape, a world, a painting, a sculpture. Many of the poems are intensely personal, yet the truths they convey in their universality lead us to have our own personal experiences, our own deep and lasting reactions to these written words." Kathleen Garrett