"Deeply I sat, fixed to the slap, slap, slap of her trot, and the counterpoint thud-plod, thud-plod of her heart, enchanted by a soft percussion I felt part of, floating above the syncopated rhythm like a melody."
--Diane Ackerman, recalling her beloved Appaloosa mare
Horses have inspired devotion, awe, and love in their human companions for millennia; in Horse People more than forty acclaimed writers and artists share their own passion for these magical, mythical animals.
Horse People includes deeply moving reminiscences and stories as varied as Jane Smiley's memories of her return to riding and Rita Mae Brown's straight-from-the-horse's-mouth tale "told" by her horse, Peggy Sue Brown. A wide range of artistic mediums are represented as well: Painter Jamie Wyeth evokes dreamlike memories of a rural past; photographer John Derryberry captures the untamed beauty of wild stallions in Kashmir.
Read this moving anthology and "you too will yearn to connect--or reconnect--with horses" (Town & Country).
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For thousands of years, humankind has relied on the horse for companionship. Powerful and spirited, yet gentle and trusting, horses inspire both the hearts and imaginations of many. In Horse People: Writers and Artists on the Horses They Love, notable horse lovers collectively celebrate the equine in words and images. Some 25 writers present stories from the heart, including Jane Smiley's account of overcoming a lifetime of paralyzing fear by jumping her horse; poet Henry Taylor's tale of Goldheart, a memorable horse of his youth; and Rita Mae Brown's horse Peggy Sue's valuable horsy advice. Photographs and paintings, illustrations and sculpture--including the work of Tess Gallagher, Fritz Scholder, John Derryberry, and Deborah Butterfield--offer stirring images in both full color and black and white, skillfully capturing the spirit of horses and of those that love them best.
...when I think about this period in my life, my summer of wonder and delight, I think of the blue sky, and my horse, his spine digging into my body, and the way when you're on a horse with a fine gait, the world just opens up its doors to welcome you. It was this perfect moment, and I lived it often, and the sky was so clear I swear to God you could see halfway across the world.
So writes T.M. McNally, clearly a horse person, fascinated with that almost mythical creature, whose physical power is second only to its power over our hearts and imaginations. With horses, we're aware that we're in the presence of joy; we're overwhelmed, we're smitten. Horses have saved our lives, pulled us from worry, steered us through our awkward adolescence, borne us triumphantly into some greater understanding about our place in the world.
In this volume of original pieces, twenty-five magnificent writers, reining language and emotion with the precision and sensitivity of an expert rider on a trusted steed, share passionate, funny, spiritual, stunningly emotional stories of this eternal bond between humankind and the creature Cleopatra Mathis calls "a great heaving machine powered by a faithful, easily broken heart": Franz Lidz interviews the great steeplechase jockey Dick Francis; Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley conquers a lifetime of paralyzing fears by jumping her horse; Peggy Sue (Rita Mae Brown's mare) offers straight-from-the-horse's-mouth advice. Lucy Grealy reflects on the horse's capacity for rescue and redemption, Diane Ackerman on the ecstasy of riding.
Combined with lavish photography, stunning art folios from artists such as Jamie Wyeth and Fritz Scholder, and Stan Fellows's luminous watercolors, Horse People, finally, is forty-three human beings who listen hard to horses--not to train them, or break them, or possess them, but to hear, in the perfect acoustics of a horse's returned silence, the few truths we've learned about the time we share on this planet.
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