Old Friends Walking in the Mountains: Poems (1994)

By Rick Newby; with twelve etchings by Doug Turman; cover painting by Dale Livezey

Published by Bedrock Editions, Helena, MT

104 pp., 12 etchings, 5.5" x 8.5"

Paper, ISBN 1-56044-312-X, $11.95

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From novelist and poet Melissa Kwasny

“What company Rick Newby keeps in these mountains both provincial and worldly: cowboys, unionizers, figures from Surrealism, Franz Kafka visiting the Broadwater spa in Helena, a gathering of the famous, infamous, ordinary and beloved, ancestors both of the poet's blood and imagination. A collage of sensual pleasures and play.”

From poet and letterpress printer Peter Koch

“Rick Newby, navigating by an improbable system of coordinates, has successfully managed to steer clear of the predictable and readily negotiable slackwaters of pure regionalism and has landed on the farther shore miraculously intact. His trajectory through both the tender and the oracular moments of perception propels him on a collision course with the cities of the imagination. Newby signals the emergence of a cosmopolitan Montana poetics. At last.”