"ALAN KISHBAUGH’S DEEP WATERS presents a fascinating and rare friendship between a younger, curious writer and one of the best writers of the Southwest. Their letters—exchanged for nearly three decades and detailing life in Taos and on the pueblo, the struggle to achieve success, the dangers of encroaching ‘progress,’and a deep reverence for the land—offer a luminous portrait of one of America’s most visionary and unsung authors. Deep Waters should give Frank Waters his rightful place among America’s literary visionaries."
– LYNN CLINE
Author of Literary Pilgrims:
The Santa Fe and Taos Writers’ Colonies, 1917-1950
"DEEP WATERS IS MORE than the collected correspondence between Alan Kishbaugh and Frank Waters, one of the greatest authors to emerge from the American Southwest. It is a fascinating portrait of a literary friendship and a window into the final decades of the twentieth century, when American culture embraced the profound metaphysical realms underlying the troubled surface of those times."
– JOHN NIZALOWSKI
Author of Land of Cinnamon Sun:
Essays on Family, Mythology, and the American West