7 Volume Set of the Blue Rock Review

This set includes all 7 published volumes of the Blue Rock Review.

Blue Rock Review Volume 7: Water

Water and stories go together. In the seventh year of the Review, we went looking for water—to wash, to swim, to float, to drink, to sink and splash in it. Because water is never only water. It wants desperately to say something about life and death, and all the imponderables, which must be pondered. Featuring Guy Laliberté, Julie Speed, Bill Wittliff, Jimmy Webb, Mary Gauthier, Danny Schmidt, Sam Baker, Stephen Harrigan, and more.

Blue Rock Review Volume 6: Signs

It seems all of us are on our way somewhere, carried partly by our own wheels and by the winds of providence, culture, biology, and crazy luck. No wonder we look for signs. Featuring songwriters Jimmy Webb, Jon Dee Graham and David Wilcox, novelist Reed Arvin, screenwriters Emily Tracy and Anne Rapp, sculptor Bill Worrell, Texas Poet Laureate, Karla K. Morton, and more.

Blue Rock Review Volume 5: Play

Play—we know it when we see it. It’s all four Beatles piled high on a toboggan in the snow (A Hard Days Night), or performing on a rooftop in London until the cops come and shut them down. It’s Einstein with a violin, or a kid doing anything with a cardboard box.  Among featured artists are Rodney Hatfield, Susan Werner, Kevin Welch, Sam Baker, Keith Carter, Julie Speed, and David Wilcox.

Blue Rock Review Volume 4: Friction

We’re having a conversation about friction.  Nobody slides by on this subject.  Classical physics says that broken things do not reassemble.  Friction is what brings the whole thing to a halt.  And yet… not always. Features Mac McAnally, Issa, Tom Kimmel, Bill Wittliff, Nathan Brown, Rodney Bursiel, Leah Dunaway, Jon Dee Graham, and more.

Blue Rock Review Volume 3: Seeing

So often it begins with the eyes.  An artist sees a shadow in a doorway or a barbed-wire fence around a playground and suddenly the seed of a story is planted.  Something beautiful or horrific, ironic or tragic, past, future, or present, burns a hole in your imagination until you can work it out.   Children, prophets, lovers, and other artists see what they see.  Features Antony Hegarty, Butch Hancock, Peter Case, Ellen Berman, David Wilcox, and more.

Blue Rock Review Volume 2: Next

Welcome to volume two of The Blue Rock Review.  Next is our theme.  What’s next? is our question. Herein, we celebrate the thing that killed the cat; we take on what is reserved for the young; we hail what we long for in our leaders – curiosity, risk, vision.  We enter a conversation on change…  Featuring Rupert Neve, Rolando Diaz, Emily Little, Reed Arvin, Nathan Brown, Pierce Pettis, Billy Crockett, and more.

Blue Rock Review Volume 1: Genesis

Genesis – the process by which ideas are made real – is fascinating stuff. This Review was spoken into being, not unlike the grand “let there be” narrative of the Hebrew creation story.  Authentic language is as powerful as it is rare.  What I have discovered is that the quality of the conversation is both the means and the end – a place from which we are inspired and, also, to which we return to understand…
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This volume may only be purchased as part of the 7 volume set.

Blue Rock Foundation Diner Mug

Perfect with a good book.

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