The recent publication by Turtle Point Press of Jonathan Williams's BLACKBIRD DUST is a treasure chest of essays, poems, and photographs by the great Jonathan Williams. BLACKBIRD DUST is the long-overdue companion to his earlier collection of essays, THE MAGPIE'S BAGPIPE. Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	RIVER OF COLOUR, a book of photographs by the late Raghubir Singh, is filled with narrative and surprise. His photographs from India contain all the immediacy of a snapshot while at the same time seeming almost staged in their exquisite detail. The paperback edition is still available. Get it from Amazon.com by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	CONTEMPORARY HARMONY by Ludmila Ulehla. Get it from Advance Music (because Amazon claims it is out of print!) by clicking here. Add your own review by clicking here.
	Jargon 104: TUSCAN TREES MARK STEINMETZ with texts by JANET LEMBKE Mark Steinmetz, a photographer still in his thirties, is a wonderful   printmaker with a very unique, sombre, concentrated vision. “No two   eyes see the same world,” says a Fujitsu tv commercial. (I don’t know   who first said that, but they got it right.) Who has ever seen Italian olive trees this well? For the past five   years or so Mark Steinmetz has been teaching in the summer   photography program of the Art Department of the University of   Georgia, at Cortona, in Tuscany. Tuscan Trees offers a portfolio of   some of his most luminous findings. The shimmering animation of his   olive trees is of an order that suggests what Aaron Siskind achieved   with his anthropomorphic rocks and walls, surely an epiphany in   photographic history. To add even more to this small and lovely book, we asked Janet   Lembke, one of our finest writers, to respond immediately and   directly to the images. She is both a naturalist and an authority on   the ancient poetry of Greece and Rome. The results are, simply,   letter-perfect.... Annie Proulx says this: “Lembke’s writing tacks   between three points: the stuff of her late-twentieth-century life;   the tangle of creature and plant in every dimension of tide and river   flow; and the haunting, connecting wires of mythos that still knot us   to the ancient beginnings.” Emerson: “The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens; the ground   is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered with   hints...” So, just who is an olive tree and who ain’t? Jonathan Williams $25.00 (trade paper) ISBN: 0-912330-83-X Order from Amazon.com

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