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David L. Condit

David Littell Condit died suddenly and unexpectedly of undiagnosed cardiovascular disease, on December 13, 1999. He was in California, where he was visiting Antioch College in Marina del Rey. He had recently been accepted into their MFA program, with an emphasis on poetry. He had received acclaim for his poems after readings to the faculty and other renowned poets there.

David's first book, THE HUMMINGBIRD BRIGADE has strong poetic overtones. It is a novel of healing, a novel of the spirit of the 60s, when many sensitive young people refused "to kill people for no good reason." The story came out of experiences from David's own youth, and from his vocation as an expert counselor of troubled young people. We recommend it to all. It deserves wider circulation. We encourage readers to consider giving this novel of healing to persons who could be helped by it. We have reduced the price to $4.

David is survived by his wife, Amalia, also a professional educational counselor, and his teen-age daughter, Casey, who live in Tucson, AZ. In memoriam we have published a chapbook of David's poetry and prose, TO DANCE, AFTER THE DOOM.

Michael Thomas

MICHAEL THOMAS is a native New Mexican. His family is from Raton, and he grew up in Alamagordo, spending much time in Cuidad Juarez eagerly absorbing Mexican culture. This fascination led Michael to the study of anthropology, as an undergraduate at UNM, and then at the University of Washington, where he received his PhD. His field work was done in the Mesquital Valley of Hidalgo, just north of Mexico City.

Dr. Thomas is a professor in the University Honors Program at UNM and co-directs the UNM’s CONEXIONES summer programs in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Southwest. His early novels CROSSWINDS, published by Amador, and the award-winning OSTRICH (University of Nevada Press, 2000) established a comic direction he continues in the more ambitious HAT DANCE (University of New Mexico Press, 2004).

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