Lyric poems by four men. The scene is a motor home behind a house in Ashland, Oregon. Four men meet together for the first time. They are American men with many of the same needs, the same fears. They have fought the same battles. They are sons and the fathers of sons and daughters. They debate what it means to be a man. That was the beginning of what became this collection.

A Path Through Stone

Barton, Bruce

Reid, John

Bornstein, Jonah

Dieffenbacher, Steve

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Eros Lost

Jack Nidever

Poems written by a young man of the 90s. He writes about poems in which he's drunk, on a bad acid trip, anorexic with pneumonia, but what comes through is a mystifying and beautiful wholenss. He tells his story with startling honesty, without justification, without guilt or even regret.

On Blue Felix Paper

Kwang, Casey L.

Flashes of Merriment

SCOTT, BOB

This is the rugged story of Jack Gilliam, a third-generation logger who, in the wake of a junk-bond Wall Street takeover of Oregon forests, becomes the timber war's first world famous casualty. Gilliam then becomes its most coveted pawn, as timber bosses, environmental protesters, cut-throat news reporters and politicians from county commissioners to the President, crawl over each other to profit from his tragedy.

Forest Blood

Literature & Fiction

Golden, Jeff

Action & Adventure

A moving novel, told in diary form, captures the mores of mid-west America during the WWII era. You'll find fascinating insights into a Jewish teen's psychology as she struggles to understand her awakening sexuality, betrayal, and anti-Semitism in her hometown. The protagonist, Janet, begins to grow up as she learns of the horrors taking place in Europe.

The Summer Everything Changed

Ruth Bornstein

History of Colorado's water management from 1937 to the present, including intrastate and interstate compromises, regulations, and statutes, as well as new programs, both state and national and served to alter and expand the focus of water management.

Defend and Develop

Thomas V. Cech

"Dr. Hunter has created a book of exquisite insight into the feelings, hopes and dreams that lie beneath the parenting experience. A wise and beautiful book of essays and poetry for parents of all ages. And grandparents too!" -from Rachel Naomi Remen, MD The poems brought together by Dr. Hunter explore the emotional and physical shifts of parenting. The combined wisdom of more than forty poets, including Sylvia Plath, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, Sharon Olds, and U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright, subtly expose the joys and fears families feel but rarely discuss. Prefaced with a blend of Hunter's anecdotes and essays on child development, each chapter honors a moment of transformation for children and their parents. This poet-pediatrician's book is a unique and powerful treatise on raising children, offering a new language of love for families to share.

The Well-Versed Parent

Hunter, Jane E.

Parenting & Relationships

The following excerpt from a prose poem in the collection best describe Jonah Bornstein's poems. "Describe the frantic air thrashing and flicking . . . the whistles and clicks of birds and insects, the agaves and cacti . . . the granite, aggregates, shale, slate--hold them in your palm close to your face, so close that when a breeze brushes the pollens and dust from your hand into the air, they enter you through your mouth, gritty and chalky . . . the smell of sweat mixing with it all; then you will understand you are a filter. What enters is the finest stuff and it will mix with you until histories and memories form an intricate web from which nothing is lost." -- from "Prelude""Jonah Bornstein stands half in, half out of the world, his poems crackling with a physical tension, the way of things; his poems calling from some place so deep you reach for him, or he for you, and your clasp is hot with sorrow, joy, passion, and gratitude, that words save us again and again." -Sandra Scofield, National Book Award finalist; author of seven novels, including Beyond Deserving, Plain Seeing, and two memoirs"What better to fill a page's primordial emptiness than the impulse of the poet to somehow both speak of the world and be of the world? What better than being able '. . . to hold the world up and to lie down / in it'? Accomplishing such a duality is Jonah Bornstein's work in these lyric poems. His voice conveys the longing and sadness inherent in such a two-fold being, one intent on becoming '. . . the twilled heart of man / and sycamore / white / as bone.'" -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate

The Art of Waking

Poetry

"Treat yourself to the best seat in the house and prepare to be moved, amused, and astonished. This lovely book provides a wonderful window into the inner workings of The Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a handful of their most distinguished actors discusses their personal creative process, the unique challenges of a repertory which balances classical works and new American plays, and the strenuous demands of being a professional actor at this, the highest level." -Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors: Telling the Story

Alan Armstrong

Mary Z. Maher

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