This book is like Stanley Crawfords floor. The floor began more
than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico
after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their
home-made house is written in the hand-plastered floor, patched and
sealed over the years. At first a reminder of how little he and his
wife knew about working with mud, the floor has become beautiful in
the years since 1971. It embodies their lives, the ways things have
changed and the ways things have stayed the same. A mud floor is
perfectly sustainable, being infinitely repairable and finally
recyclable.
Reflections in Mud, Crawfords essay about the floor, is one of
the many pieces collected in this book about his life in northern
New Mexico. The novelist who didnt know how to lay a mud floor is
now a seasoned farmer, irrigator, and northern New Mexico villager,
and the essays on these subjects that he has been writing since the
1980s continue the work he began in "Mayordomo" and "A Garlic
Testament" as an articulator of values that are out of synch and
out of scale with the suburban lives of most Americans in the
twenty-first century. Whether he is writing about the river whose
water irrigates his land, the plants and animals with which he
lives, or the continuing struggle he and his neighbors must engage
in if their small farms and farmers markets are to survive,
Crawfords thoughtful, witty essays are the kinds of summing up that
his fans have been cutting out of periodicals for years. Now that
they are in book form we can all throw away the clippings, reread
the essays, and give the book to friends who have yet to discover
the pleasure of reading Stanley Crawford.
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