CONFLUENCE.

Donald McComber

Radiolarian Press

This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain

Yake, Bill

The poems in this collection by teacher and naturalist Greg Darms "represent a rough chronology, as well as an approximate topography" of his life and work on the West Coast from British Columbia to California and back to Oregon. Material and occasions for the poems range widely, too: encounters with foxglove, heart cockles, dragonflies, grebes and spotted skink share a phenomenological space with sheriff's reports, photographs, texts and scores, flash floods, and his aging father. By turns meditative, epistomological, and elegiac, Darms' poems signal a kind of "return, a venture into the contiguous world."

Flammable, Inflammable: Poems, 1991-2006

Literature & Fiction

Darms, Greg

Poetry

In the Company of Saints; A Personal Compendium

Karin Temple

In Bill Yake's second collection of poetry, he begins in his home territory just south of Puget Sound and circles outwards from the Olympic Mountains to Papua New Guinea, from the Neolithic to last year, from irony to philosophy. These poems explore natural phenomena, human interactions, habitats and landscapes with the eye of a naturalist and an ear tuned to the music of language . The work unfolds with surprise, humor, and imagination. Enjoy.

Unfurl, Kite, and Veer

Bill Yake

Return to Spirit Lake: Life and Landscape at Mount St. Helens

Science & Math

Colasurdo, Christine

Nature & Ecology

<p>El Verano Burning is Nancy Cherry's first major collection of poetry since Gardening in the Deep End (Redfruit Press, 2006). It is a lyrical travelogue of memory, a collage of her youth in California's central valley, and of her life among the network of hills and esteros of West Marin and the iconic intersections of Sonoma and San Francisco. Her agile meditations and engaging narratives of childhood, family, work, and relationships are rich with the bittersweet feelings of passage and loss, of recurrence and return. "I know this road. / I know it leads back / through the raw and stubbled truth, / back to the place / I keep driving away from-"</p>

El Verano Burning

Cherry, Nancy

<p>In Chalice of Tears, her sixth collection of poems, Karin Temple looks to the past, her own past as a "child of war" in 1941 Germany and the cultural history of that era which has affected her. In telling anecdotes and images, she sketches her subsequent physical and spiritual moves towards settling at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon. In acknowledging the foundational values in her origins, Temple finds the lasting connections and truths which constitute home for her now, and lead to thoughts of the ultimate end of her journey, "the last and least expected ritual / to come home to." The book closes with "The Holiness of Broken Things," a sequence of meditative poems written to accompany the reliquary sculptures of Astoria artist Charles Schweigert. The sculptures are reproduced with the poems in elegant color photographs.</p>

Chalice of Tears

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