Radio Mano, Papa Chango.

Hello everybody, I hope you're feeling good.

Hope everything's going well for you out there this episode of Tangentially Speaking is with Peter Anderson who is an awesome guy.

He's super smart.

Tons of experience, poetic imagination, very good writer.

He's a poet.

He's an S.A.S.T. He is an editor.

He's written a bunch of books himself.

He's put together books of other people's work, which, you know, that's something you only do if you're a generous spirit.

We talk about some of his books, but here are some titles going down grand poems from the canyon.

That's an anthology of grand canyon poetry, which together's the voices of cowboys, explorers, river runners, hikers, artists, geologists,

rangers, and others whose words bear witness to this complex and magnificent place.

Another book is called Heading Home, Field Notes.

It's sort of, it's described as a Dharma bomb.

It begins with Peter's Dharma bomb passion for the road, which leads him through the mountains and deserts of the American West.

And eventually lands him in an eccentric end of the road town full of mystics, misfits, and mountain dwellers.

Same town.

I'm in.

Same town we sat in when we recorded this.

I hope this will be the first of several episodes with Peter.

He's, I mean, there's no way with any of these people that you get the full story in an hour or two.

And one of the great pleasures of this podcast is that it puts me in rooms with people I really enjoy being in rooms with.

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