Las Pozas – C.M. Mayo's Book Notes & Convos

Yet More Pix of Las Pozas

More photos by my amiga N.: Sir Edward James’s surrealistic garden, Las Pozas,” in Xilotla, San Luis Potosi. (Here’s my recent post.)

Daniel Chacón’s “Words on a Wire” Podcast Interview
with Yours Truly About Francisco I. Madero’s Secret Book

Spotlight on Mexican Fiction: “The Apaches of Kiev”
by Agustín Cadena in Tupelo Quarterly and Much More

Peyote and the Perfect You

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More Pix of Las Pozas

More photos by my amiga N. of Sir Edward James’s surrealist garden, Las Pozas, in Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Click here to see my previous post with links to the documentary film.

Q & A: Joseph Hutchison, Poet Laureate of Colorado, on The World As Is

“The Typewriter Manifesto” by Richard Polt, Plus Cyberflanerie on Technology

Guest-Blogger Diana Anhalt on Five Books That Inspire Poetry

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A Visit to Las Pozas, Xilitla, San Luis Potosí

This photo, by my amiga N., is from a recent visit to Sir Edward James’s Las Pozas, a surrealistic garden in Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. One of the little-known but spectacular treasures of Mexico.

Watch the superb documentary film by Avery Danziger, “Edward James, Builder of Dreams:”

—>Click here for more pix of Las Pozas

From the Archives: Notes on Artist Xavier González (1898-1993), “Moonlight Over the Chisos,” and a Visit to Mexico City’s Antigua Academia de San Carlos

Meteor, Influences, Ambiance

The Solitario Dome

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You can always buy my books here. And by the way, you can now also find some of my longform essays not-yet-in-print on Kindle, among them: “Dispatch from the Sister Republic or, Papelito Habla” and “From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion.”

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