Advance Praise for Rock Dust, the new book by Stan Badgett
"This is a book of passionate search, of questioning, delving, and discovering. Questions of faith, betrayal, madness, sanity, blessing and curse erupt throughout the work. It is an opportunity for the non-Christian … to enter the spirituality of an ordinary yet brilliantly artistic man whose extraordinary life includes, as did his father's, both a continuing search for the origins of truth and a deep acceptance of the truth he has found."
– Karen Chamberlain, co-founder of the Aspen Writers' Foundation,
author of Desert of the Heart, prize-winning poet
"Stan Badgett has traced the colorful threads of his unique life in a set of twenty-four recollections … written in flavorful, accessible prose with a sprinkle of nature-based poems … a zesty memoir with a distinctly western personality."
– Dr. Michele F. Cooper, author of Posting the Watch, prize-winning poet,
founding editor of Newport Review and Crone's Nest
"Precise and elegant prose, a strong atmo- sphere, and vivid imagery to conjure for the reader a fresh and evocative narrative."
– Minnetonka Review
Stan Badgett and his wife live in the mountains of western Colorado, where they raised four children. Stan has a B.A. in Fine Arts and an M.A. in Language and Communication from Regis University in Denver, Colorado with additional graduate work at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals. A selection from his book was recently published in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3, published by W. W. Norton.