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David Rothman featured on CO Public Radio!

November 11th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Press | Leave A Comment »

David Rothman, author of newly released Living the Life: Tales from America’s Mountains & Ski Towns, is featured on Colorado Public Radio today! Read his poem, “One of the Boys,” online here, or-even better!-listen to him read it himself.

Living the Life: Tales from America’s Mountains & Ski Towns

September 25th, 2013  |  by  |  published in David J. Rothman, Non-fiction | 13 Comments »

Thinking about my own romance with the alpine world over the years has led me to discover one of the places where cause and effect come together. I may not be able to see this place of fusion clearly, or all at once, but it does exist and I can certainly sense it. This book is […]

The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope

September 1st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Conundrum Classics, David J. Rothman, Poetry | Leave A Comment »

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (1992), a collection of essays, is the last book Wallace Stegner published in a long and productive life of thinking and writing about the West. In the Introduction to the book, Stegner writes that “the West at large is hope’s native home, the youngest and freshest of […]

The Elephant’s Chiropractor

September 1st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Conundrum Classics, David J. Rothman, Poetry | Leave A Comment »

“What impresses one first about David J. Rothman is his immense imaginative and intellectual range, but the more one reads his striking and exuberant poetry the more deeply one feels its emotional force and quiet but genuine ferocity. He is an Apollonian touched by the divine madness of Dionysus. Diverse, demanding, and delightful, his poems […]

Beauty at Night

September 1st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Conundrum Classics, David J. Rothman, Poetry | Leave A Comment »

Imagine a world where pharaohs have wheelbarrows, bicycles are made of ice, tigers live in apartment buildings, trees speak, kites think, and cats fly. This is the world ofBeauty at Night, where even adults can secretly enjoy vivid colors, beautiful drawings, playful verse, and a certain magic. Click here to purchase. Anyone who has ever […]

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