James Eldin Reed: Pacific Northwest Renaissance

1. General Nonfiction

Mark Tobey and the Pacific Northwest Modernists

“A wonderfully detailed and, at the same time, evocative work of interpretation that weaves together media, history, and artists.”

—David Hall, Harvard University

2. Cultural History

Mary McCarthy’s Seattle

The exuberant coming of age—in the many-angled Seattle of the 1920s—of one of America’s most celebrated intellectuals.

3. Religion and Culture

Emily Carr in God’s Country

“A richly evocative and deeply humane exploration of religion, culture, and art.”

—David Hempton, Harvard Divinity School

Poets

Mark Tobey, Parnassus, 1963. Seattle Art Museum.

Theodore Roethke, mid-1950s. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries.

"The edge is what I have." Roethke's Notebooks.

Roethke-Lieder

Anthropology as Poetry: David Wagoner.

The Poetry of Place: Richard Hugo

Carolyn Kizer: Salad Days.

“They call it regional, this relevance--/the deepest place we have” -- William Stafford, "Lake Chelan," 1962.

Poetry Northwest, founded 1959. House journal of the Northwest Poets. Cover design by Mark Tobey.

Vancouver Lights: Earle Birney

Malcolm Lowry on the Ferry to Gabriola

Frederick Varley, Night Ferry, Vancouver, 1937. McMichael Canadian Collection.

“At the field’s end, in the corner missed by the mower.”

–Theodore Roethke, The Far Field