Seattle Small Books Company

On Ancient Paths - Digital Version now available online >

James M. Brantingham

On Ancient Paths, originally published in 2005, is now available to read in its entirety online. This effort is due in large part to Nate Brantingham and Sarah Kulfan whose combined efforts transformed the book into interactive web pages.

Click here to read On Ancient Paths digital version

The Winnowing Fan

James M. Brantingham

This lovely playful book takes exquisite care with words and images, giving us one quiet moment hung upon another until the seas of its imagination stretch blue or dark before us. Brantingham's translations create cutting verses sharper than butchers' knives, and he plays satirically with academic speculation about a supposed fragment from paleo-literature. Read this book for its spare lines, where Eden, Attica, and an abandoned cabin somewhere in the western hills become one, and references to orchestral music match the music of his words.

- Linda J. Clifton, Ph.D.
  Founding editor, Crab Creek Review