For some time now, I have been hypnotized by ruin. I don’t mean the moral ruin that I was always warned about in church, but the ruin that comes to everything as the result of time. None of us is safe from decay. My first lesson in ruin came from the continual round of seasons […]
Hardcover, 266 pagesFrom University of Washington March 2010ISBN: 9780295989648 The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs is a tour of the Pacific Northwest through the eyes of Richard Hugo’s poems. If you don’t know who Richard Hugo is, you are missing out. Born in White Center, Washington and buried in Missoula, Montana, Hugo’s poetry […]
I stumbled across a collection of essays at work by Thomas Lynch called “Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.” Lynch, a poet, also works as an undertaker. He writes about how one trade informs the other. Nancy Peacock the award-winning author is another writer who had a nonliterary job to pay the bills. She […]