Desert Winter

Desert Winter is an imaginative form of poetry fiction that explores the life-changing experience of pursuing an impossible love. With devotion similar to obsession, a woman struggles to free herself from a romance at once exhilarating but ultimately unattainable. An artist from Seattle finishing her master's degree in the desert southwest finds herself unexpectedly entangled with an astronomy professor who has dedicated his life to Zen Buddhism. Written over the course of a single winter in Taos, New Mexico, her attempts to reconcile their deep connection and the love affair's inevitable conclusion, through expressions of poetic verse, narrate this book of poems.