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Ireland is known throughout the world for its rich and vibrant storytelling. Josie Gray is a proud inheritor of this tradition, a yarn-spinner whose evocative stories are steeped in the rural Irish community to which he belongs. Captivated by his tales, acclaimed poet Tess Gallagher worked with Gray to give the oral versions written form. The result is a memorable collection that preserves the intimacy, melody, and rhythm of Gray’s voice. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned linocuts, Barnacle Soup is a lyrical feast for all those who love hearing and reading stories.
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“Reading Barnacle Soup, I was seized with the delightful and simultaneous impulse to clutch this book tightly to my chest, and yet also to share it with everyone I know. I’m so grateful to Josie Gray and Tess Gallagher for these intensely place-based stories of bright-burning souls.”
—Rick Bass, author of The Lives of Rocks
“This is a most unordinary kind of book. Josie Gray can tell stories. When he speaks about a dog, I would like to touch that dog. When he writes about a song, I would like to sing that song. This is what I call a good story.”
—Haruki Murakami, author of After Dark
“Gray and Gallagher collude and collogue to produce stories full of deadpan and deadly accurate wit.”
—Ciaran Carson, author of Shamrock Tea |
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FEATURED BOOKS
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I Little Slave
Bounsang Khamkeo |
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Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression
Ed. Thom Schramm |
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'This memoir of the Laotian death camps is the first full account of the Pathet Lao’s secret jungle prisons. What a miracle that Khamkeo survived to write the story.”
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'The accomplishment of these poems is that they express, with dignity and grace, what Coleridge in his 'Dejection' ode called 'the eddying of [the] living soul.' And this is what poems are meant to do."
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Fortune
Joseph Millar |
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My Piece of the Puzzle
Doren Robbins |
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“Millar can ride a poem into some wildly imaginative territory.…His impulse is to tell a story, but he never forgets, as a poet, to tell it one line at a time.”
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“These are remarkable, fiery poems. Poems that would urge any poet on, language that tears open reality. . . There’s a delicate observation of even the rawest materials, a tenderness for humanity in all its cruelty, stupidity, and often invisible dignity and grace."
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FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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Grizzly Wars: The Public Fight Over the Great Bear
David G. Knibb |
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Coming Summer 2008! |
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EWU PRESS
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Congratulations to Press authors Joseph Millar and Brenda Miller, both recently awarded Pushcart prizes. Millar's poem "Fathers" and Brenda Miller's essay "Blessing of the Animals will appear early next year in The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses
"Fathers" is among the poems collected in Fortune (EWUP, 2007).
Miller's essay is the title piece in Blessing of the Animals forthcoming from the Press in January 2009.
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The June 11, 2008, edition of The Wall Street Journal Asia featured an op-ed piece about the future of democracy in Laos written by Press author Bounsang Khamkeo. Khamkeo’s I Little Slave (EWUP, 2006) is a thoughtful and moving account of his arrest in June 1981 and subsequent seven-year imprisonment at the hands of the Laotian government. Read the essay.
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Robert Bly, recently named Poet Laureate of Minnesota read from Turkish Pears In August (EWUP, 2007) on Prairie Home Companion . . . read more
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>> Friends of Literature |
Join the Northwest Friends of Literature for special membership benefits and more...>>GO |
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>> Get Lit! |
Get Lit! 2008 was a great success. Headliners included Diana Abu-Jaber, David James Duncan, and Thomas Lynch. For more info, visit the Get Lit! web site |
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