Poetry. For V. B. Price, the power of Chaco Canyon is irresistible. In this collection of poems, he penetrates the mysteries of the ancient people who built the splendid Chacoan towns and departed. The haunting echoes of their voices longer below the canyon cliffs and around the shoulders of Fajada Butte, and poets like Price hear them as 'lullabies in the night -- Marc Simmons. on the graves of gardens / in Chaco's inner shore, / I hear the music of time, / spanning the holy once / from the end to the beginning (Garden Music). V. B. Price is a poet, journalist and teacher who has lived and worked in New Mexico for 40 years.