Eros & Equus: A Passion for the Horse

by Laura Chester (Editor), Donna Demari (Photographer)

Anthology of prose and poetry from great writers such as Annie Proulx, John Hawkes, Maxine Kumin, Beryl Markham, Jane Smiley, Mikhail Lermentov, Tess Gallagher, Isak Dineson, Charles Bukowski, Annie Dillard, and more.

Genres: Poetry, Animals

216 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2006

About the author

Laura Chester has published many volumes of poetry, prose and non-fiction. Most recently, "Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship," was made available from Indiana University Press, and a selection of prose-poems, "Sparks," was published by The Figures. Both books include extensive photographs by Donna DeMari. Station Hill Press released an updated version of "Lupus Novice," an account of Chester’s personal struggle and breakthrough with the auto-immune disease SLE, while Black Sparrow Press, published three of Chester’s early books of fiction. Chester has edited four important literary anthologies, including Deep Down and The Unmade Bed. She is currently completing a fifth, "Eros & Equus," a passion for the horse. Having grown up in Wisconsin, lived in Albuquerque, Paris, and Berkeley, she now travels between Patagonia, Arizona and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Marissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful photographs and excellent excerpts that capture the many tactile, sensual and emotional shifts you encounter while riding, or contemplating riding. I didn't know what to expect from this book when I got it, but I am really glad I did. It is a lovely coffeetable book and great conversation starter. Get it, you won't regret it!

The back cover has my favorite Goethe quote: "Let me remark that the most lively and exquisite delights are like horses racing past, the experience of an instant only, which leaves scarcely a trace on our soul; that liberty and equality can be enjoyed only in the intoxication of madness, and desire reaches its highest pitch of excitement only in the presence of danger and the voluptuous half sweet, half uneasy sensations which it arouses."