Two-Headed Calf

by Laura Gilpin

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

About the author

Laura Gilpin, (born April 22, 1891, Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S.—died Nov. 30, 1979, Santa Fe, N.M.), American photographer noted for her images of the landscape and native peoples of the American Southwest.

On the advice of photographer Gertrude Käsebier, Gilpin went to New York City in 1916 to study at the Clarence H. White School of Photography (1916–18). In her early work Gilpin practiced the Pictorialist style, which imitates the effects of painting. Returning to Colorado in 1922, she turned to commercial work, mainly architectural photography and portraiture. She also published guidebooks, providing both images and text. From 1942 to 1945 she worked as the chief photographer for Boeing Airlines in Wichita, Kan., and from 1946 to 1968 she photographed the Navajo people, documenting their way of life in her eloquent platinum (and sometimes silver) prints. This project culminated in the publication of The Enduring Navaho (1968). Gilpin next traveled to New Mexico, where she photographed Pueblo Indians and the Canyon de Chelly region, near Santa Fe. Among her books of photographs are The Pueblos (1941), Temples in Yucatan (1948), and The Rio Grande (1949).

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Reviews

[matías saavedra · Rating 5 out of 5]

«Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual».

<3

[B!!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this poem so much

[Chloe Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poem/ A touching story, but could make some children upset at the ending

[kait · Rating 5 out of 5]

so beautiful

[Francoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esa no que lloro

[cait · Rating 5 out of 5]

my love for this poem is 🩷🩷🩷

[Elena · Rating 4 out of 5]

no sé cuantas veces lo he leído pero se ha convertido en uno de mis comfort poems

[Corrin · Rating 5 out of 5]

holy crap, dude

[leo ⭐️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

there are twice as many stars as usual. 4,5⭐️

[Rl9 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Smutno mi jest bardzo, bardzo

[Charlotte (The Writers' Crown) · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourite poems, never fails to make me bawl at the very thought of it.

[Audri ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

“twice as many stars as usual”

[sol · Rating 5 out of 5]

:((((((((((
tan simple pero tan bonito y doloroso al mismo tiempo

[Chris mulcheater · Rating 5 out of 5]

this shit always make me cry

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This poem and the art it inspired is heartbreakingly beautiful

[Noa ౨ৎ‧₊˚ ⋅ · Rating 5 out of 5]

cried the first time i read this poem. how is it possible to convey so much and move so deeply in such few words?

[mart!na · Rating 4 out of 5]

there are twice as many stars as usual