DESCRIPTION
This serial poem chapbook features segments by: Jack e. Lorts, Grey Elliott, George Venn, Thomas Madden, David Axelrod,
Jodi Varon, David Memmott, Misha Nogha, Sara Miller, Cathy Jontos-Putnam, Pamela Sue Steele, Suzanne Burns, Ellen Waterston, Donny O'Ryan, Tina Castanares, Rob Whitbeck, Phillip Mahaffey, and Jarold Ramsey.
"From the Eastern slopes of the Cascades, rising more than 10,000 feet into whiteness, to the steppes of the Snake; from high rolling grasslands, to the abrupt endlessness of the Steens; from the ruggedness of the barely peopled Ochocos to a high desert that seems to go south forever. This is the land of which the poets in these pages speak." (From the introduction by Jack Lorts)
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Jodi Varon, David Memmott, Misha Nogha, Sara Miller, Cathy Jontos-Putnam, Pamela Sue Steele, Suzanne Burns, Ellen Waterston, Donny O'Ryan, Tina Castanares, Rob Whitbeck, Phillip Mahaffey, and Jarold Ramsey.
"From the Eastern slopes of the Cascades, rising more than 10,000 feet into whiteness, to the steppes of the Snake; from high rolling grasslands, to the abrupt endlessness of the Steens; from the ruggedness of the barely peopled Ochocos to a high desert that seems to go south forever. This is the land of which the poets in these pages speak." (From the introduction by Jack Lorts)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Conger Beasley Jr., has published two novels and three collections of short fiction. His most recent book is We Are a People in This World: The Lakota and the Massacre at Wounded Knee (University of Arkansas, 1995). In 1991 he was given the World Hunger Media Award for journalism for his three-part series, "Of Pollution and Poverty" (Buzzworm Magazine) and the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement for his book, Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual (University of Arkansas, 1990).