Idyll for a Vanishing River Quitab Editions Deeply imaginative

Deeply imaginative

Her deliberate phrasings threaten the security and steadiness of knowing oneself by cementing the turbulence of grief and goodbyes

and with unfaltering detail and intimacy

Lana Bella

Idyll for a Vanishing River Quitab Editions Deeply imaginativeJeff Alfiers collection Idyll for a Vanishing River maps out a vast, battered landscapeeverything from the broken Americana of abandoned quicksilver mines and truck stops, to the salt pan of dead ocean that is now refuge to pumas stalking amongst ghost flowers. With a cartographers sharp eye and an inherited peasants faith in work, Alfier uses Death Valley warning signs and relief maps as guides not just for Southwestern haunts, but as legends and