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Product Description The OREGONIAN has described George Venn as one of "the bestknown and most respected poets in the state." As Primus St. John puts it, "George Venn is . . . a poet of great heart for the majesty of place and creatures, of water running and the old trees still standing, for epics of the first people and those who came later, for the wilderness gone and the wilderness still leftinside and outside us." Ice River Press is an imprint of Wordcraft of Oregon. Review George Venn poems in West of Paradise are...always sharp, always physical. He knows that place is more than geography. Place is the way you tell your story and live your remembering. And what he tells and what he remembers is that place and poetry, memory and loveall can be one, "moving together the way tanagers/fly," if we have the strength "to/listen without divisions." William McRae, writer, editor & critic; The Literature ofIn West of Paradise George Venn covers the territory from aluminum foilcovered coffee cans full of flowers at grave sites to emperor penguins carrying their eggs on the tops of their feet. Whether dealing with the Colfax Grade or the great undulations of the Palouse, he is a master of the detail that exudes the spirit of place, of time, of the hopes and joys of the human soul. Karen Swenson, author of The Landlady in BankokThis is poetry of big love, great heart. George Venn's scale is immense and inclusive.... The only other poet I know whose work has such range is Tom McGrath who, like George Venn, told the stories of his region in such a way as to make them magical, luminous, and permanent... James Bertolino, author of First Credo, Quarterly Review of About the Author Born in the shadow of the Washington Cascades, Venn's early life was divided between his parents' city manses and churches and his grandfather's country farmhouse, woods, and apiary, between the Alder, Washington, of his childhood and Spirit Lake, Idaho, the burnedover milltown of his adolescence, between cedars in rain and tamarack gone gold, death of his father and his mother's remarriage. In 1967 after studying in Ecuador, Spain, and England he graduated from the College of Idaho. In 1970, he completed an MFA at the University of Montana and was appointed to the faculty at Eastern Oregon University. His early poems were published by Prescott Street Press Sunday Afternoon: Grande Ronde and Off the Main Road and in 1987, Oregon State University Press published Marking the Magic Circle, a complex multigenre collage. From 1989 94, Venn served as General Editor for the 2,000 page historical anthology, THE OREGON LITERATURE SERIES.
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