Comments on: ed abbey | an introduction & on nature http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/ed-abbey-an-introduction-on-nature/ Norbert Blei's Poetry Dispatch and other Notes from the Underground. “We live to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection,” said Anaїs Nin. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paul tomer http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/ed-abbey-an-introduction-on-nature/#comment-322 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:34:18 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=808#comment-322 alas for he is gone these 19 some years. it seems as thou it was only a fortnight ago when i crossed his path at the bookstore on the mall in the “Hole”. i still have both the signed copies from him, he had a sparkle in his eyes as he spoke of the wilds of the gros vonte that hot july day.
if you want a true outlook on the west, read his speech on cowboys and cattle from the university of montana…
blessed are the cracked for it is they that let in the light…

]]> By: Barbara Fitz Vroman http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/ed-abbey-an-introduction-on-nature/#comment-246 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:51:01 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=808#comment-246 For those most passionate about nature, Abbey is a God. The man gave everything to the desert he worshiped. He earns my respect, but alas, not my love.

He decries too many things that are holy to me. The indigenious people he so admires often suffered unbelievable pain for things that civilization has greatly alleviated. I love the creativity and sensitivity that goes into making a china cup, the beauty of a mosque or a temple, the printed words that others left behind.

Without civilization we would have no Shakespeare, no
Hemingway, not even an accessible Edward Abbey.

I salute him, but I do not kneel at his shrine. Barbara Fitz Vroman

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