Loving Mother Earth Like a One Night Stand

About the Book

Loving Mother Earth Like a One Night Stand has been hurt into existence by the author’s unflinching and relentless realization---after all, we hope to evade such a stark truth---that our own greed and stupidity are closing out our story.

The poems’ typically short lines slash us, make ecological connections from the bison to the Trade Towers, and demand/hope for change.
---William Heyen, Poet-in-Residence Emeritus, State University of New York, Brockport.

Columnist THAD BOX and photographer ALAN HUESTIS pair up to give an environmental and an artistic view of how we use the land. Box’s poems protest current treatment of the Mother Earth; Huestis’s photographs show both her beauty, her people and her scars.

About the Author

THAD BOX writes to encourage good land use, environmental awareness and social justice. In past lives he has been a rancher, laborer, soldier, radio station manager, adobe mason, town trustee, research scientist, professor, and dean. He shares his ecological training and experience in commentaries and poems that appear widely in newspapers, magazines and on radio. He lives in and writes from the mountain valley that surrounds Logan, Utah. ALAN HUESTIS is a well known landscape photographer whose work takes him around the world. He owns Studio 404 Photography and Fast Focus Productions, photography and video production studios in Logan, Utah. He is published in many national and international magazines. A California surfer, Alan came to Utah to attend Utah State University. He fell in love with the beauty of northern Utah’s never ending offerings of landscape opportunities and never went home. His work can be seen at www.studio404photography.com Other Xlibris Books by Thad Box Me’N’Alvin--Growing Up in the Great Depression, narrative poems From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty--A Memoir Bud’s Adobe Dog House--children’s picture book with Marie Dwyer