Through the Basement of Time

by O. Alan Weltzien

Overview

Through the Basement of Time meditates upon the intersection of human and geologic stories on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. This poetry chapbook distills the experience of a group of (mostly) strangers becoming more than fast friends across two weeks rafting down the river and through pre-Cambrian rock 2,000,000,000 years old. The poems capture images and moments on rapids or in side slot canyons or at campsites, the contrast of high dry heat with the cold Colorado River, as well as ways in which adults shed skins and turn playful, childlike and intimate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646628421
Publisher:	Finishing Line Press
Publication date:	05/20/2022
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

O. Alan Weltzien, a recently retired academic, has paddled and rafted in Montana and Idaho. He spends more time skiing (winters) and scrambling peaks (summers). He was an English professor for forty years in two states and has published two chapbooks and ten books. These include a memoir and three poetry collections. Weltzien and his wife travel extensively, particularly when there's no pandemic.