Evergreen
Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest
Rena Priest, Beth Piatote, Taneum Bambrick, Richard Fifield, Gary Copeland Lilley, Erin Pringle, CMarie Fuhrman, Rick Barot, Dujie Tahat, Shawn Vestal, Tess Gallagher, Ruth Joffre, Nicola Griffith, Kate Lebo, Elissa Ball, Linda Cooper, Erin Malone, Elissa Washuta, David Naimon, Alexander Ortega, Ellen Welcker, Alexis M. Smith, Kathryn Nuernberger, Kathryn Smith, Mita Mahato, Katrina Roberts, Tiffany Midge, Jennifer Marsh, Emma Noyes, Tamara Love, Johanna Stoberock, Katharine Whitcomb, Dawn Pichón Barron, Margot Kahn, Anca L. Szilágyi, Kate Peterson, Tara Roberts, Shantell Jackson, Catherine Johnson, Laura Read, Joe Wilkins, Rachel Mehl, Nance Van Winckel, Leah Sottile, Derek Annis, Leyna Krow, Lucia Perillo, Christopher Maccini, Seanse Ducken, David Allan Cates, Tim Greenup, J. Newell, Henrietta Goodman, Inga Laurent, Dayna Patterson
377 pages · Released Nov 2, 2021
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This is an adult literary anthology centered on difficult, mature themes including grief, trauma, colonialism, environmental loss, and existential despair. While not graphically violent, individual pieces address serious subjects like car crashes, disease, and emotional devastation with emotional intensity. The collection rewards reflection and empathy but requires emotional maturity to process its heavy subject matter constructively.
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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 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."
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ISBN 9781734697810