ROBIN MAGOWAN is the author of America, America (Abbeville, 1999), Memoirs of a Minotaur (Story Line, 1999), Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral: Poems (South Carolina, 1998), Tour de France (Velo, 1996), and Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukahra, Khiva (Abbeville, 1990). He is also the translator of Henri Michaux's Ecuador, published in 2001 by Northwestern University Press. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticut.
It is Magowan's power of observation that makes this book special, but he is no passive observer. He not only describes scenes, he plunges in and creates a center of action.... It is magic that Magowan spins, a megic made more believable by his understanding and acceptance of the people he meets. - Mark O'Brien, San Francisco Chronicle; ""Magowan is that rare traveler who allows himself to experience everything and then to describe in clear detail what caused the experience... The difference between travel writing such as Magowan's and the ordinary variety is truly a matter of depth - how deep (that is, how much, how truly, how accurately) one can see."" - Donald Richie, Japan Times; ""Vissi d'amore, vissi del viaggio might well be this writer's theme song. He travels in order to love, he loves in order to find himself elsewhere. From deep in this or that interior his reader gets postcards; dissolving views, myth-haunted, radiantly dislocated particulars."" - James Merrill
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