A Forray into Seattle’s Pilot Books

I returned to Washington’s coast and spent part of my rain-soaked Sunday at Pilot Books.  The bookshop is a small retail, almost loft like space in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district. What separates Pilot Books from other bookshops is that it only sells books put out by small presses.  True, you can purchase a Copper Canyon […]

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Berlin Wall and Mixed Metaphors

Let me start out by saying that my situation is nothing like the division of Germany after WWII.  I have not been separated from the rest of my city, country or had my freedoms restricted by a totalitarian regime.  But the metaphor of wall may work. Some of you know that I have spent the […]

Book Notes On: The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs by Frances McCue

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 […]