Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. Madeline DeFrees says, "After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake, and the Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us [in] A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE...stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender." And Lawson Inada says, "She ventures into the recesses of memory, explores the complexity of nature, and human nature...here is poetry of revelation and wonder." Oregon Literary Arts has chosen Paulann Peterson to receive The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for her work for the Friends of William Stafford. Paulann is also a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, a part of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards

A Bride of Narrow Escape

Literature & Fiction

Petersen, Paulann

Poetry

Cloudbank Books

These are the poems of an enraptured heart and mind, of clear eyes and ears doing the soul's seeing and hearing. They vividly prove the unchanged function and relevance of poetry: to crystallize unsayable, non-verbal inner states, and to sanctify every world it touches. The Voluptuary brings us necessary visionary news of a profound sanity rooted in ecstatic love for creation. --Li-Young Lee

The Voluptuary: Poems

Lost Horse Press

Here a reader encounters a voice steeped in the music of the English language, a voice intent on the musical possibilities of poetry's open and nonce forms. In these pages, one finds a voice indebted to the power of metaphor-the capacity of metaphor to transform both language itself and the way we humans see this world.

Understory: Poems

The Grace of Oregon Rain: An Anthology of Poems

Molotkov, A.

Runciman,Lex

Drake, Barbara

Hollander, Andrea

Chula, Margaret

Hughes, Henry

Montgomery, Judith

Mason, Alexandra

Trail, Pepper

Turnstone Books of Oregon

In Paulann Petersen's much anticipated first book, the poet gathers the best work from her two limited editions and adds to them a generous selection of new poems to create a thematic link she subtitles A Reading from the Erotic Compass of the World. As Pulitzer prize-winner Carolyn Kizer notes, the poems are tenderly erotic and breathe the spirit of a woman who has learned how to live and love-and write. Although the poems are, in Lisel Mueller's words, as original as they are moving and their language richly evocative and sensuous, The Wild Awake in the title refers us to the body's intimate relationship with the earth and its rhythms, to the way we experience light and darkness, sleep and dream, love and hunger. . . . The wild and domestic gardens of the poet's native Oregon haunt the book, sometimes as subjects individualized in the form of plants (Oriental Lilies, Graveyard Narcissus) and animals (a spoonbill, a merman), other times abstracted as produce (a honeycomb, a fur coat) and labor (work, time, sleep). All poets draw on myth, John Daniel concludes, but in many of her poems, Paulann Petersen writes myth itself-stories and seeings so true you look again and again, and they're truer.

The Wild Awake: A Reading from the Erotic Compass of the World

Confluence Pr

Takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a shrine in India. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig; an elegy for a grandmother's panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry's ability to bring alive again what is coded into the blood, these poems ultimately form an arc of an aging woman's life. This collection tells the tales of what she has always realized, is ever learning, and can truly know. Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has six previous full-length books of poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and POETRY IN MOTION, which placed poems on busses and light rail cars in the Portland, OR area. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. In 2006 she received the Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, and in 2013, Willamette Writers' Distinguished Northwest Writer Award. As Oregon's 6th Poet Laureate, from 2010 to 2014 she traveled over 27,000 miles within Oregon, visiting all of its 36 counties to give workshops, readings, and presentations.

One Small Sun

Salmon Poetry

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