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In the Zone is Laura Chester's own selection of poems, prose poems, and stories from 1970 to 1988, the first two decades of her career. Erotic, dreamlike, they constitute the personal history of a literary sensualist.

Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby. Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encount...

In this remarkable one-year journal, skilled horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her world, where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons, with beauty and sometimes danger. While riding in places as far-reaching as Mexico, Australia, and India, Chester is always grateful to come home to the comforts of her familiar horse. As they cover the borderland of Arizona and the hills of Massachusetts, we get to know Barranca...

The first in a series of imaginative children's books, this wild tale chronicles the story of a small blue horse named Glory, who takes Turner Flint off to the land of Joya, where she can forget her taunting older brother and what she should wear on the first day of school. Illustrations.

This anthology collects prose and poetry from great horse-loving writers such as Annie Proulx, John Hawkes, Maxine Kumin, Beryl Markham, Jane Smiley, Mikhail Lermentov, Tess Gallagher, Isak Dineson, Charles Bukowski, Annie Dillard, and others. Duotone photos.

Heartbeat for Horses is a collection of writing and photographs brought together in honor of horse crazy girls--those who might only live in the fantasy world of books and porcelain statues, who pin posters onto their walls and dream of jumping like National Velvet, or who actually compete in rodeos and horse shows in an attempt to win that blue ribbon. Writer/editor, Laura Chester, has selected a brilliant array of prose and poetry that is pa...

Recommended by Andrew Weil in Natural Health, Natural Medicine, Lupus Novice gives a moving account of the author's successful struggle with incurable SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), affecting mostly women. Ms. Chester shares the personal discoveries behind her recovery, and a meditation on what it means for a body to be attacking itself. This enlarged edition updates her story and includes a foreword by the best-selling authority on immun...