Please join editors William Peterson and Nicole Blaisdell Ivey for a discussion and book signing of GUS BLAISDELL COLLECTED Wednesday 12/5 at 4pm
DISCUSSING GUS Dec. 5th 4pm UNM bookstore
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In 2002, a year before his death, Gus wrote the bio below to accompany his poems included in IN COMPANY: an anthology of New Mexico Poets after 1960
photo by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey
Gus Blaisdell for twenty-seven years ran an “alternative to an absence,” the Living Batch Bookstore, always close to the Frontier Restaurant. He continues to teach film at the University of New Mexico. He runs a small press, Living Batch Books , that continues to present his alternative to absences. A special line of his books is called Drive, He Said, after Creeley’s poem “I Know A Man.”