The Farmer's Daughter: Poems

Literature & Fiction

West, Kathleene

Poetry

Sandhill Pr

Judy R. Smith's Yellowbird was the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award recipient. David Lynn, editor of the prestigious Kenyon Review notes, "Yellowbird is a marvelous achievement--full of wit, invention, and emotional power. There is a wildness of spirit here and a searing honesty. I was entirely caught up while reading Yellowbird and only reluctantly came to the end." University of Oklahoma Professor of English and Native American Studies, Geary Hobson, writes, "Have you ever found yourself carefully scrutinizing mid-19th Century daguerreotypes--as if halfway expecting the cut of Prince Albert topcoats and the stylish flair of ribbon clusters of the clothing of the well-dressed fathers and mothers and their children will somehow reveal what the faces aren't offering, what they can't offer? Yellowbird, with its several strands of intricately woven narratives of a past century's voices, is just such a similar act, one in which the reader is not only rewarded with a deeper and clearer understanding of the people in that olden day, but also of our own century and its multi-faceted assemblage of voices and faces." Yellowbird is an important collection, essential for readers of Native American Studies, fiction, and women's studies. Yellowbird weaves together three narrations: an entirely fictional Yellowbird, Algonquin mystic; a partly autobiographical Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; and a mostly fictional Lizzie Shaw Melville.

Yellowbird

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Judy R.

Social Sciences

The Reason/Unreason Project

Strasser, Judith

Valerie Miner calls Paula Coomer's first collection of short fiction "witty, hard-hitting, melancholy and passionate . . . . Her fine work is characterized by a palpable sense of place as well as by a strong compassion for, indeed love for, her idiosyncratic characters." Idaho author Mary Clearman-Blew remarks that Coomer's "stories are as sparkling and unexpected as found pennies, with their promise of pleasure in turning the next page." Coomer's debut is stunning.

Summer of Government Cheese

Coomer, Paula

Contemporary

States

Pashley, Jennifer

Cara Diaconoff writes with clarity and heartfelt honesty about ordinary lives on the cusp: artists, converts, migrs, fiancesall manner of people on the boundary between one way of being and the next. The compassion of these stories moved me deeply. I feel like I know these people. Theyll stick with me for a long time. David Haynes, Author of The Full Matilda Cara Diaconoffs short stories are evocative and compelling. They can be as disturbing as dreams, as immediate as those memories that strike when were not quite awake. These narratives make us rethink the solidity of the world. Cara has a fine ear for the cadences of speech and the flow of sentences; her characters speak to us from far distances but also in intimate whispers. Francois Camoin

Unmarriageable Daughters

Diaconoff, Cara

As author Ann Ronald notes, "Simultaneously a paean to his father and a personal memoir about a changing landscape caught by a ‘rising tide of affluence,’ Alan Weltzein’s A Father and an Island:Reflections on Loss, echoes my own Pacific Northwest youth—the endless saltwater summers, the quirky behavior of a bookworm, the sweet sharp tang of blackberry cobbler, the fierce games of badminton, the beachcombing days of discovery, the blessedness of parents well loved. Anyone who’s grown up in and around Puget Sound will find familiar memories triggered on every delicious page. Some sweet,some nostalgic, some downright sad, they’re all here in this poignant remembrance of things past." Northwest author Mary Clearman Blew writes, "In this moving tribute to his father and his family’s home on a Puget Sound island,Alan Weltzein returns us to a time when summers were glorious and children played all day long on beaches that were still unexploited and unrestricted—a pleasure to read." Weltzien's memoir is an essential book for Northwest Letters.

A Father and an Island: Reflections on Loss

Biographies & Memoirs

Weltzien, O.Alan

Memoirs

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