Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain - Stone, Doug
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Here, Doug Stone, a fourth generation Oregonian, shares his love of Oregon--its places, its seasons, and its people. Through his lyrical and narrative poems, we are led to witness the power of place, the bonds of family, and his tributes to favorite artist and poets--all through the lens of the ubiquitous northwest rain. ____________________________________________________________________ "...the honest lyricism of Doug Stone where the joy of swallows can write in the sky" --Penelope Scambly Schott, author, A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Oregon Book Award) "There…mehr

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Here, Doug Stone, a fourth generation Oregonian, shares his love of Oregon--its places, its seasons, and its people. Through his lyrical and narrative poems, we are led to witness the power of place, the bonds of family, and his tributes to favorite artist and poets--all through the lens of the ubiquitous northwest rain. ____________________________________________________________________ "...the honest lyricism of Doug Stone where the joy of swallows can write in the sky" --Penelope Scambly Schott, author, A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Oregon Book Award) "There is pain and there is splendor in these poems, and Doug Stone knows that the task of the poet to study and transform their meeting places. In Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain, he has succeeded admirably." --David Biespiel, Poet-in-Residence, Oregon State University, author, A Long High Whistle (Oregon Book Award) "Stone does not flinch from melancholy but also makes room for humor." --Rachel Barton, editor, Willawaw Journal
Autorenporträt
Doug Stone is a fourth generation Oregonian and lives with his wife amid hop yards and vineyards near the Willamette River in Benton County, Oregon. In past lives he has worked on a county road crew, been a grocery store clerk, a case worker, and an analyst and a consultant on public policy issues to state governments, AARP, and the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. He has won the Oregon Poetry Association's Poet Choice Award. His poems have been published in numerous journals and in the anthology, A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford. He has written two collections of poetry, The Season of Distress and Clarity, and The Moon's Soul Shimmering on the Water.