Consolation Prize

Poetry. Regional, humorous, and wise, the poems in Aileen Keown Vaux's CONSOLATION PRIZE bloom from Central Washington State Fair themes. "Find Your Happy!" transforms into a meditation on joy's ephemerality; "Celebrate What's Great!" examines both the wonder and despair of our faculties of observation. The first chapbook published in Scablands Books's Channeled Chapbook series, CONSOLATION PRIZE promises to be a quintessential Inland Northwest read, as quirky and bright as the Yakima fair that frames it.