Llano Estacado: Island in the Sky to debut with Apr. 7 Arts Festival exhibition

Llano Estacado

An Island in the Sky

Edited by Stephen Bogener and William Tydeman
Introduction by Barry Lopez

192 pages, 12 x 11 cloth

60 color and 15 b/w photos; 1 map

$45.00 cloth  |  978-0-89672-682-6

The modern Llano, fashioned from the raw earth and history of its past, and shaped as much by politics and economics as by rain and wind, is the meditation point for the photographers and writers brought before us here. Their translations alert us to the complexity, the idiosyncrasy, the passion, the forlorn hopes, the sublimity of the place, and sound across these pages one of the clarion calls of the twenty-first century.

                                                —barry lopez, from the foreword

William Tydeman is an archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, where he oversees the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. A former archivist at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University, Stephen Bogener is currently assistant professor of history at West Texas A&M University in Canyon. Award-winning author Barry Lopez is the Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Texas Tech University. He lives in Oregon.

Publication of the book was made possible through the auspices of the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University and the generous support of The CH Foundation.

Photographs by

Peter Brown

Rick Dingus

Steve Fitch

Miguel Gandert

Tony Gleaton

Andrew John Liccardo

Essays by

Rick Bass
Stephen Bogener
Stephen Graham Jones

William Kittredge

Barry Lopez

Sandra Scofield and Jessica Scofield

Annick Smith

William Tydeman

Voice in the American West

Andy Wilkinson, series editor