Truth flows through these poems like a cold deep river . . . read Swimming Grand Canyon to be there—on the restless river, and deep in the knowing heart.
—Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar

A lovely, rugged, racing trip down the Colorado from this original Grand Canyon river ranger and river guide.
— Kathryn Wilder, Colorado Book Award Winner, Desert Chrome: Water, A Woman, and Wild Horses in the West

What Lawton places in our hands is a rare gift, smoothed and polished. 
—Arthur Dawson, author of Where the World Begins: Sonoma Mountain Stories and Images

Cover photograph for Swimming Grand Canyon by Christopher Brown, ChrisBrownPhotography.com.