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Swimming with Snakes by Robert Michael Pyle
Swimming with Snakes is a leisured stream and forest bath of pure connection with the real, physical places in which we live.
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Touch Wood by James Dott
Touch Wood is a lyric field guide to the Pacific Northwest's keystone trees. Blending natural history with poetry, Dott invites readers into a living forest of words, revealing the elemental secrets of these trees and our longstanding connection to them.
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Cascadian Zen Volume One
Inspired by David McCloskey’s watershed map of Cascadia, this is the first of two volumes that assembles a wide-ranging selection of poets and philosophers united by their place-based practice of Cascadia.
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Deluxe Edition Cascadian Zen Volume One
Watershed Press is offering Cascadian Zen in a deluxe edition with a strictly limited printing of 26 numbered copies (and six copies hors commerce), hand bound in cloth.
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Cascadian Zen Volume Two
Inspired by David McCloskey’s watershed map of Cascadia, this is the second of two volumes that assembles a wide-ranging selection of poets and philosophers united by their place-based practice of Cascadia.
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Olson & Love
What if the spark of The Maximus Poems began with a love affair?
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On the Way to Kluusms by Lorin Medley
On the Way to Kluusms traces a lyrical journey through Vancouver Island toward the Nass River (Kluusms in Sm’algyax), where the return of eulachon marks the turning of seasons.
Touch Wood by James Dott
Touch Wood is a lyric field guide to trees. Each poem is an ember coaxed to flame to light a path toward a deeper understanding of trees and our kinship with them. The short life and tragic death of David Douglas, early North American botanist, threads through the collection. Touch Wood’s poems are elegies, narratives, and meditations on our tangled histories. Touch wood, learn the roots and truths of the trees of the Pacific Northwest.
Swimming With Snakes by Robert Michael Pyle
Swimming with Snakes is a leisured stream & forest bath of pure connection with the real, physical places in which we live. Robert Michael Pyle is known for his lyric essays, poems, and fiction, and here he brings them all together in a big fat hosannah for all the joy, pleasure, and redemption he has received in a long and lucky life among the plants and creatures, including humans.
On the Way to Kluusms by Lorin Medley
This limited-edition chapbook from the Watershed Press series features the richly embodied, place-rooted poetry of Lorin Medley. On the Way to Kluusms traces a lyrical journey through Vancouver Island toward the Nass River (Kluusms in Sm’algyax), where the return of eulachon marks the turning of seasons. With language drawn from her background as a trauma counsellor and massage therapist, Medley writes the body, the land, and the tensions of settler presence with precision and grace. Marmots, sea wolves, wind, and memory co-inhabit these poems.
Cascadian Zen Volume One
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the bioregion?
It is through these questions and related inquiries that we seek to explore in the Cascadian Zen Anthology project, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E. Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill. Volume One is the first of two volumes in the Cascadian Zen anthology project that bring together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork, exploring expressions of Zen within the Cascadian bioregion.
Deluxe Edition Cascadian Zen Volume One
Watershed Press is offering Cascadian Zen in a deluxe edition with a strictly limited printing of 26 numbered copies (and six copies hors commerce), hand bound in cloth, with almost twenty contributor signatures. The book comes in a handmade cloth slipcase and includes a separate, strictly limited, signed, and numbered print of Lopez Island by Nathan Wirth, suitable for framing.
Cascadian Zen Volume Two
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the bioregion?
It is through these questions and related inquiries that we seek to explore in the Cascadian Zen Anthology project, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E. Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill. Volume Two is the second of two volumes in the Cascadian Zen anthology project that bring together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork, exploring expressions of Zen within the Cascadian bioregion.
Olson & Love - The Transformative Correspondence of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff
This hand-stitched chapbook features poet Sharon Thesen’s riveting essay on the correspondence between Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff. Presented originally as the Charles Olson Memorial Lecture at the Gloucester Writers Center, Olson & Love dives deep into the erotic and intellectual current that charged one of the 20th century’s most influential poetic correspondences.
Thesen argues persuasively that Olson’s groundbreaking work—Projective Verse, The Maximus Poems—cannot be separated from the catalytic role of Boldereff. Her bibliographic insight and passionate engagement shaped the trajectory of his poetic thought. This limited edition chapbook is an essential artifact for Olson scholars, lovers of epistolary literature, and readers of literary biography and poetics.