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At the age of 97, with ten books of poetry, James McGrath offers the poem to say, ""A poem is one long breath."" James' brief poems in Nowhere is Somewhere reveal the images from a long life creating his unique vision of surviving in a world of chaos and love. The poet has accepted the voice of a bird, cloud, stone, the stranger in the take-out line where the circle of breathing is layered: this is the poem. James, together with his family of companions, continue to embrace the stones and shadows in the garden. These are seeds to be planted over and over, mulching the loneliness.

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James McGrath lives in La Cieneguilla Village near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is noted for his narrative poetry in the PBS/KAET American Indian Artists Series in the 1970s. In 2008, he was designated a Santa Fe Living Treasure. The Institute of American Indian Arts awarded James their Visionary Award in 2010. In 2014, he was given the Gratitude Award by New Mexico Literary Arts for his contribution to the literary life of New Mexico. In 2015, the University of Baltimore's passager's editors awarded him their 2015 Poet Award. The Kerf of the College of the Redwoods in Crescent City, California in 2019, nominated his poem, ""Drawing Pictures,"" for a Pushcart Prize. James was United States Information Service, Arts America, poet/artist in residence in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of the Congo in the 1990s. A biography of James, James McGrath: In A Class By Himself, by Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's ""Howl"" and the Making of the Beat Generation, was published in 2012. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, all from Sunstone Press: At the Edgelessness of Light; Speaking With Magpies; Dreaming Invisible Voices; Valentines and Forgeries, Mirrors and Dragons; The Sun Is A Wandering Hunter; A Festival of Birds; Mixed Greens; A Temporary Silence, and Selected Poems.

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