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Lasting: Poems on Aging
293 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2005
About the author
Tim Amsden
4 booksTim Amsden was born in Wichita, Kansas, earned a law degree from the University of Iowa, and worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City for 25 years. He now lives with his wife, Lucia, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
His writings have appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the US, as well as in Canada, Algeria, Ireland, and Turkey. Amsden’s full-length book of poetry, Vanishing Point, was published in 2015. He edited and contributed to a book titled The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muskogee Creek Medicine Man, which was published in 2021 by Synergetic Press.
Love Letter to Ramah: Living beside New Mexico's Trail of the Ancients, was published by the University of New Mexico Press on September 1, 2024. The book is a portrait of Tim and Lucia’s life within an eclectic and diverse earth-rooted community. There they acquired a visceral certainty, central to the beliefs of most traditional people, that to survive and prosper, we must live in concert with the needs of the living earth, and with each other.
His writings have appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the US, as well as in Canada, Algeria, Ireland, and Turkey. Amsden’s full-length book of poetry, Vanishing Point, was published in 2015. He edited and contributed to a book titled The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muskogee Creek Medicine Man, which was published in 2021 by Synergetic Press.
Love Letter to Ramah: Living beside New Mexico's Trail of the Ancients, was published by the University of New Mexico Press on September 1, 2024. The book is a portrait of Tim and Lucia’s life within an eclectic and diverse earth-rooted community. There they acquired a visceral certainty, central to the beliefs of most traditional people, that to survive and prosper, we must live in concert with the needs of the living earth, and with each other.
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