Books
are the quietest and most constant of friends
and the most patient of teachers.
—Charles
W. Eliot
Edward
Francisco
Edward
Francisco is the author of a previous novel, Till Shadows Flee,
and two highly acclaimed books of poetry, L(ie)fe Boat and Death,
Child, and Love: Poems 1980 — 2000. He is also principal
editor of The South in Perspective, an anthology of
Southern literature from 1585 to the present. Francisco lives,
writes, and teaches in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Robert Coles
is Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities and James Agee
Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. He is editor of Doubletake
magazine, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for Children of Crisis.
Alex
Harris
Alex Harris
is a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke
University. River of Traps, Harris' book with writer
William deBuys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. Islands
in Time, a retrospective of Harris' photographic work in New
Mexico, has been published by the Valencian Institute of Modern
Art.
