News at Eleven: Place figures prominently in the work

of Oregon poets Matthew Dickman, Ursula K. Le Guin and John Daniel, and that landscape is largely here--the streets and trees and sky of the Pacific Northwest cradling memory of life lived, as it is, where it is. In each of these books, faith in the immediacy of where one stands is an anchor allowing hindsight and hope to infiltrate the making sense of the tangled knot of death.

from The Oregonian: Place is prominent in three new books by Northwest poets

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