This book celebrates noted Seattle sculptor Phillip LevineÕs fifty-year anniversary as the creator of works inspired by the worlds of dance, song, sport, and social commentary. It includes a valuable autobiographical essay by the sculptor. Contributions by fellow sculptor Tom Jay and Norman Lundin, painter and professor of art at the University of Washington, offer an intimate perspective on the artistÕs enduring creative endeavor and accomplishment. Levine has lived, taught, and maintained a studio in Seattle since he arrived in the city in 1959. His sculpture Dancer With Flat Hat has greeted generations of students at the University of Washington. All those who have found beauty and delight in LevineÕs vision will enjoy the comprehensive portfolio of illustrations at the heart of the book, which covers the full span of his career. This fresh look into the artistÕs life work reveals his deep interest in the figure in movement, and the unexpected way the use of bronze, with its density and strength, opened the door to an artistic world of timeless lightness and grace.

Phillip Levine: Myth, Memory, and Image

Arts & Photography

Lundin, Norman

Jay, Tom

Levine, Phillip

History & Criticism

Museum of Northwest Art

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. "Tom Jay's work is inspirational, sui generis, and magical. He delves into tiny crevices in the quotidian world and emerges with flakes of gold. His is the voice of the grandfather, the student, and the lover rolled into one. To read him is to awaken."--Barry Lopez "Tom Jay is renowned in the Pacific Northwest for his cast bronze bells and vivid sculptures of salmon. His writing, as collected here, is every bit as forceful and beautiful. Reveling equally in etymology and bioregional ecology, Jay's essays and poems attune us to the intertwined depths of language and landscape. 'Language's vitality metaphors the world it attends,' he writes. 'It is the spoken music of our animate, many-weathered and deep-soiled home.' His writing urges us to live in 'mortally tempered attention,' and shows us precisely how it's done."--Charles Goodrich "Essayist, poet, sculptor, and ecological and wild visionary, Tom Jay is an eloquent spokesman for the riverine realm of the Pacific Northwest. These poems and essays shimmer with insight and hard-won wisdom. Like salmon at sea, Jay's subjects range widely. His essays move easily and surely among history and folklore, nature and community. They explore the hidden roots of language and commonplace mysteries of watersheds. and his words inevitably circle back home--to the heart of what it means to be human in a wondrous but threatened world."--Tim McNulty

The Blossoms Are Ghosts at the Wedding: Expanded Edition

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Empty Bowl

Poetry. This is a book of poems and essays. The essays are the variously ripened fruit of the author's passion to scout the spooky verge between language and nature. The "imagination" precipitated between humanity and the world around us provides the means for our meanings. ("As a species we have lived in nature's necessary wisdom far longer than we have in the quicksilver machinations of our wit.") The essays glance off and into the weathered mutual "musings" of word and world and pry at the nut-smooth knot we daily mouth. The essays aim to finger more finely the threads of their stories. THE BLOSSOMS ARE GHOSTS AT THE WEDDING also hosts a band of "witness" poems and prose vignettes that want to sing between the live immensity of creation and the stubborn flicker of our awareness. "Essayist, poet, sculptor, and ecological &amp; wild salmon visionary, Tom Jay is an eloquent spokesman for the riverine realm of the Pacific Northwest. These poems and essays shimmer with insight and hard-won wisdom. Like salmon at sea, Jay's subjects range widely. His essays move easily and surely among history and folklore, nature and community. They explore the hidden roots of language and commonplace mysteries of watersheds. And his words inevitably circle back home--to the heart of what it means to be human in a wondrous but threatened world"--Tim McNulty.

The Blossoms Are Ghosts at the Wedding

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