besmilr brigham with coati
Nayarit, Mexico circa 1957
Besmilr Brigham
FIERCE LIGHT
from the unpublished manuscripts of besmilr brigham
selected by Robert Yerachmiel Snyderman
Robert Yerachmiel Snyderman
Pre-Face: “what do we fear/losing the things a man loves/shelter”
Contents
Padre Mia
As Tourists, We Move in Extrovert Reality
Blue Toro
The Wakening
A Father run off from his Family
We Will Not Burn our Trash-brush Piles this Year
Country People: House of the Earth
The un-reconstructed Altar place at Tajin
Crossing the Violent Land: Camino del Diablo
November in Jalisco
The old house is now Surrounded by Trees
Beauty Is
Notes for Anne
1972 Library of Congress Recording Session
Portraits
Acknowledgments