Forthcoming Titles from Wordcraft of Oregon
In the next six-eight months, Wordcraft of Oregon will be releasing three new books.
Giving It Away, a collection of poems by Wordcraft of Oregon editor and publisher, David Memmott. (See info posted on website).
A Democracy of Ghosts, a novel by John Griswold. The love story of four couples, set against the backdrop of the Herrin Massacre of 1922. This clash of miners and strikebreakers in Bloody Williamson County, in Southern Illinois, resulted in the deaths of 21 men–19 of them the “scabs” tortured and murdered by average men, women, and even children in what was once considered the most radical community in America.
John Griswold has drawn from contemporary eyewitnesses and news accounts, an ethnography of the area, histories, and his own grandfather’s letters to create the lives of four fictional couples whose ambitions, self-doubts, and social and sexual jealousies contribute to this great American violence that still echoes down through time.
The Procession of Memories: Harry Martinson Poems (1929-1945) translated by Lars Nordstrom. A new edition of the Nobel Laureate’s early poems in a bi-lingual edition with an Introduction by the translator.
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