... contemplations of a wise, honest and tolerant mind ... you live in a saner world after reading this. -- Fern Lyon, Southwestern Bookshelf, New Mexico Magazine, 1978
All of you Drew Bacigalupa fans out there -- and there are so very many! -- relax. Drew's columns are here, and there are many new bits too -- delicate, fragile yet still strong they all say "Drew." I think Drew's journeys into the past, the war, student days are not nostalgia. They are the eternal now of a man who lives them again as he writes, they exist as surely as the tiny grooves on a victrola record carry the music impressed on them. The war in which he soldiered marked the heart of Drew Bacigalupa with a cross hatching of scars as truly as age does of a man in his 90's. They are not ugly scars, or bitter, or angry, nor are they particularly pleasant. They just are. Oriental relgion speaks of a third eye in the middle of the forehead. Drew Bacigalupa developed a third eye, a wise one, in his heart. -- Alice Bullock, Southwestern Books--The Sant Fe NEW MEXICAN, October 23, 1977
Drew Bacigalupa seems to be a Renaissance man with an intense love for human beings. A first-rate essayist, his comments on men and women and incidents in his life appeal because of his breadth of understanding, his philosophic vision and the vividness of his writing style. -- Reviewed for NC News Service by S. J. Miragliotta, NC News Librarian, Catholic Standard, March 23, 1978
If you yearn for Drew Bacigalupa's "Coffebreak Journal," which used to appear in the Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN, you can be somewhat appeased by JOURNAL OF AN ITINERANT ARTIST. JOURNAL is a record of the contemplations of a wise, honest and tolerant mind. Bacigalupa's delight in changing seasons, his family, work, play, travel, dogs, cats and rascals is catching. You live in a saner world after reading this. -- Fern Lyon, Southwestern Bookshelf--New Mexico Magazine, 1977
Indelible glimpses into the memorable and character-defining events of a man's life go beyond the personal and touch a universal, common chord that we can all feel. -- The Critic, 1977
Product Description
A collection of essays originally published as a weekly column in The Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN's Sunday supplement. Provocative insights into the life of an artist-writer -- his family and friends, extensive travels, experiences in World War II. An incisive and personal perspective of life in the recently-closed 20th century by one of Santa Fe's most renowned long-time residents of the celebrated art colony.
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