THE ONE-WINGED BODY Second Edition

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>GALEN GARWOOD and PETER WELTNER have made a Valentine to Beauty and Arousal with photographs and poetry that are beautiful and aroused. Words italicized by arousal. Nakedness articulated by folds of cloth a dialogue of flesh and flow that signals classical antiquity but also the mystical inwardness of Mary's mantel. If the body is a language here it speaks in itself of happiness fulfillment lush utopia. Arousal is the wing that carries it upward. Not wisdom through suffering but awe. But desire ignited by beauty desire that submits to beauty that s another story a story that may involve destruction obsession and loss. And memory: our culture's visual memory like the pictorialist photographs of Imogen Cunningham or the ethnographic studies of young natives by Baron von Gloeden who also carried his camera to Sicily and personal memory like the Ronnie's and Bob's of Weltner's past. John Keats called beauty truth. Is it? Weltner and Garwood are not suspicious of beauty belittled by it made ironic by it. What do we do with beauty? submit to it aspire to it be ennobled by it be destroyed by it? All of these. --Robert Glück</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Galen Garwood is a painter filmmaker photographer and printmaker from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. His works have been exhibited in the US Europe and Asia. His multi-media piece Adagio won a Bronze Award at the International Multi-media Film Festival in Philadelphia1995 and in 1996 was included in the 1996 Venice Biennale s Xenograhia Nomadic Wall and again at Art Affair in New York. His film Cadmium Red Light was awarded First Place for Narrative/Documentary at the Port Townsend International Film Festival in 2007 and a First Place Award for Short Documentary for Ed and Ed at the DeReel Film Festival in Australia in 2008. He collaborated with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1979 and with a number of poets most notably American Poet Sam Hamill with Passport'. Galen Garwood currently lives mainly in Thailand where he continues to be involved with the plight of the Asian elephant as well as painting and art collaborations. Peter Weltner is the author of five books of fiction Beachside Entries/Specific Ghosts (Five Fingers Press1989) Identity and Difference (The Crossing Press 1990)In a Time of Combat for the Angel (Five Fingers Press 1991)The Risk of His Music (Graywolf Press 1997) and How the Body Prays (Graywolf Press 1999) and of three poetry chapbooks Laguna Beach: After Shelter (Barnwood Poetry 2009) From a Lost Faust Book (Finishing Line Press 2009)and From a Lost Gospel of Mark (2River 2010). News from the World at My Birth: a History poems was published in October 2010.His writing has also appeared in several national anthologies including Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1993 and 1998 and in several dozen literary magazines and journals.He lives in San Francisco s outerlands two blocks from the Pacific.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p></p>