Evergreen : grim tales & verses from the gloomy Northwest

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Evergreen : grim tales & verses from the gloomy Northwest

Author:

Shields, Sharma, editor.

Zeller, Maya Jewell, editor.

Summary:

"In this rich, shadowy, glittering anthology edited by Sharma Shields and Maya Jewell Zeller, 56 Northwest writers share their singular stories, essays, and poems that center what Shields calls 'the literature of despair.' These pages confront what is difficult in life with extraordinary precision and grace: In Beth Piatote's story 'Secondary Infection,' a Yakama auntie narrates the undoing of a lonely woman; in the essay 'There Is No Story Until It Happens to You,' Richard Fifield writes about a devastating car crash in the remote Montana northlands of his youth; in his series of poems, 'During the Pandemic,' Rick Barot reflects on fear, isolation, and hope as quarantine descends; in her visual poem, 'The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit: An Auto-Elegy,' artist Mita Mahato mourns the decline of a fragile species and the terrors of human impact on the environment. In works that span themes from colonialism to environmentalism, from toxic masculinity to a loss of faith, the writers here unflinchingly address what makes us vulnerable, what makes us complex, what cleaves us and what connects us. As Zeller writes in the book's introduction, this ambitious anthology pushes us to 'learn, memorize, and recite the songs sung by these regional voices, mapping us into a communal root system of evergreen selves.'"

Contents:

Secondary infection / Litter / Ray / Elk splat / There is no story until it happens to you / For peace in the valley / Digging / During the pandemic / Coyote story / Ode to the golden hour on the day of finalizing my divorce / Wallahi / A report on the creature and its methods / Instructions to the double / Kidnaper / A girl plays with thorns / Cold wind / In the beginning (1) / In the beginning (2) / Apple / The drowning / Wildfire / Unmurdered men / Dark forest / All animal / Fire rooted in rock / The voice of the trees / Apocalypse logic / The grebe / A real man / The dimensions / Wormholes / When we dead awaken / Three collage poems / The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit: an auto-elegy / We must rely on lesser circles of protection / Little red hoodie heresy / Only an ordinance of clouds / For given this string, I'm dirigible / You are all women in the house now / The yellow house / Of the woods / Twin Lakes / More than grace / The index / Pigs (excerpts from the novel) / Losers / Murder mystery / "Meaning all meaning ending here" / Fade into you / Western story / Two origin stories / Remember, you're doing this for peace / Spell / Deity / Something about sickness / A wholly different thing / Metaline Falls / People don't die of it anymore / Last night Ferguson's caught fire / Creekboy / Ground beef mermaid / The empty bottles / Watching you sleep/ The fair / Aid / Oakdale / Excerpt from "In the Circus" / The witch in the woods / Resident ghost / Self-portrait as a stranger / A mixtape on the substance of matter / Reflections on love, loss and revival / Ophelia, amphibian / Pets / Home made of fire / Genealogy / Damages / Habitat / Shrike tree

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

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Geographic Term:

Northwest, Pacific -- Literary collections.

Author(s):

Shields, Sharma,

Zeller, Maya Jewell,

Publisher:

Scablands Books,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781734697810

Publication Information:

Spokane, WA : Scablands Books, [2021]

Call Number:

810 EVERGREEN

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Summary

In this rich, shadowy, glittering anthology edited by Sharma Shields and Maya Jewell Zeller , a multitude of Northwest writers share their singular stories, essays, and poems that center what Shields calls "the literature of despair." These pages confront what is difficult in life with extraordinary precision and grace: In Beth Piatote's story "Secondary Infection," a Yakama auntie narrates the undoing of a lonely woman; in the essay "There Is No Story Until It Happens to You," Richard Fifield writes about a devastating car crash in the remote Montana northlands of his youth; in his series of poems, "During the Pandemic," Rick Barot reflects on fear, isolation, and hope as quarantine descends; in her visual poem, "The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit: An Auto-Elegy," artist Mita Mahato mourns the decline of a fragile species and the terrors of human impact on the environment. In works that span themes from colonialism to environmentalism, from divorce to disease, from toxic masculinity to a loss of faith, the writers here unflinchingly address what makes us vulnerable, what makes us complex, what cleaves us and what connects us. As Zeller writes in the book's introduction, this ambitious anthology pushes us to "learn, memorize, and recite the songs sung by these regional voices, mapping us into a communal root system of evergreen selves."

Author Notes

Rick Barot was born on February 19, 1969 in the Philippines. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

He is the author of The Darker Fall and Want. In 2016 he won the PEN Open Book Award, UNT Rilke Prize, and the Publishing Triangle Thomas Gunn Award for his poetry collection Chords.

(Bowker Author Biography)