| Evergreen Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest | | Editor:
| Shields, Sharma Zeller, Maya Jewell | Introduction by:
| Shields, Sharma Zeller, Maya Jewell | Author:
| Priest, Rena Piatote, Beth Bambrick, Taneum Fifield, Richard Lilley, Gary Copeland Pringle, Erin Fuhrman, CMarie Barot, Rick Tahat, Dujie Vestal, Shawn Gallagher, Tess Joffre, Ruth Griffith, Nicola Lebo, Kate Ball, Elissa Cooper, Linda Malone, Erin Washuta, Elissa Naimon, David Ortega, Alexander Welcker, Ellen Smith, Alexis M. Nuernberger, Kathryn Smith, Kathryn Mahato, Mita Roberts, Katrina Midge, Tiffany Marsh, Jennifer Noyes, Emma Love, Tamara Stoberock, Johanna Whitcomb, Katharine Barron, Dawn Pichón Kahn, Margot Szilágyi, Anca L. Peterson, Kate Roberts, Tara Jackson, Shantell Johnson, Catherine Read, Laura Wilkins, Joe Mehl, Rachel Van Winckel, Nance Sottile, Leah Annis, Derek Krow, Leyna Perillo, Lucia Maccini, Christopher Ducken, Seanse Cates, David Allan Greenup, Tim Newell, J. Goodman, Henrietta Laurent, Inga Patterson, Dayna | Illustrator:
| Honeywell, Keely | Designed by:
| Honeywell, Keely | Associate Editor:
| Youmans, Nathaniel | ISBN: | 978-1-7346978-1-0 | Publication Date: | Nov 2021 | Publisher: | Scablands Books
| Book Format: | Paperback | List Price: | USD $24.99 | Book Description:
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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... More DescriptionIn 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." | |