New books in October
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| Great new Northwest titles, on the horizon!
Hiking Washington's History, by Judy Bentley. Judy will be launching her book at Village Books in Bellingham on October 5 at 7 p.m. and in Seattle at Seattle Public Library with Elliott Bay Books on October 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Dance Lest We All Fall Down, by Margaret Willson. Margaret will be launching her book at University Book Store on October 21 at 7 p.m.
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October events
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Join John Keeble, author of Broken Ground, at Auntie's Books in Spokane, on October 8 at 7 p.m.
Join Andrew Fisher, author of Shadow Tribe, in the Petersen Room of Suzzallo Library on October 12 at 4 p.m. for a lecture and event with University Book Store.
Join Charlotte Cote, author of Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors, on October 28 at the Burke Museum, with University Book Store.
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Attending PNBA?
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Hello fellow Northwest book lovers! Attending the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association meeting in Portland this October? Be sure to come by our booth and meet Judy Bentley, author of Hiking Washington's History. She'll be in the booth throughout the conference and looking forward to meeting booksellers!
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Greetings!
Now that fall is just around the corner, you're hopefully ready for some new books -- and we have just the ticket!  In the next two months, we're going to be bringing out some of our biggest and most exciting titles of the fall, including Hiking Washington's History, Dance Lest We All Fall Down, and Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors. Also, if you're in the greater Boston area, please come out and see Christopher Howell and me on September 14 at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge for an event with Grolier Poetry Book Shop! All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu  |
Aldona Jonaitis
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| The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
 The Northwest Coast totem pole captivates the imagination. From the
first descriptions of these tall carved monuments, totem poles have
become central icons of the Northwest Coast region and symbols of its
Native inhabitants. Although many of those who gaze at these carvings
assume that they are ancient artifacts, the so-called totem pole is a
relatively recent artistic development, one that has become immensely
important to Northwest Coast people and has simultaneously gained a
common place in popular culture, from fashion to the funny pages.
The Totem Pole reconstructs the intercultural history of the art form in
its myriad manifestations from the eighteenth century to the present.
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass analyze the totem pole's continual
transformation since Europeans first arrived on the scene, investigate
its various functions in different contexts, and address the significant
influence of colonialism on the proliferation and distribution of
carved poles. The authors also describe their theories on the
development of the art form: its spread from the Northwest Coast to
world's fairs and global theme parks; its integration with the history
of tourism and its transformation into a signifier of place; the role of
governments, museums, and anthropologists in collecting and restoring
poles; and the part that these carvings have continuously played in
Native struggles for control of their cultures and their lands.
Aldona Jonaitis is director emerita of the University of
Alaska Museum of the North and professor at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks. An art historian who has published widely on Native American
art, she is the author of Art of the Northwest Coast and Looking North:
Art from the University of Alaska Museum, among other titles.
Join Aldona on
Wednesday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m. at Exploration Gallery, with Parnassus Books, Ketchikan, AK
Friday, September 3, from 4:30-7 p.m. at Hearthside Books, Juneau, AK
Aldona will also be interviewed live in Juneau on KINY radio on September 3 at 10:30 a.m. and again on KTOO radio on September 3 at 3 p.m.
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Frances McCue
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|  The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo
Richard Hugo visited places and wrote about them. He wrote about
towns: White Center and La Push in Washington; Wallace and Cataldo in
Idaho; Milltown, Philipsburg, and Butte in Montana. Often his visits
lasted little more than an afternoon, and his knowledge of the towns was
confined to what he heard in bars and diners. From these snippets, he
crafted poems. His attention to the actual places could be scant, but
Hugo's poems resonate more deeply than travelogues or feature stories;
they capture the torque between temperament and terrain that is so vital
in any consideration of place. The poems bring alive some hidden aspect of each town and play off the traditional myths that an easterner might
have of the West: that it is a place of restoration and healing, a spa
where people from the East come to recover from ailments; that it is a
place to reinvent oneself, a region of wide open, unpolluted country
still to settle. Hugo steers us, as readers, to eye level. How we settle
into and take on qualities of the tracts of earth that we occupy --
this is Hugo's inquiry.
Part travelogue, part memoir, part
literary scholarship, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs traces
the journey of Frances McCue and photographer Mary Randlett to the towns
that inspired many of Richard Hugo's poems. Returning forty years after
Hugo visited these places, and bringing with her a deep knowledge of
Hugo and her own poetic sensibility, McCue maps Hugo's poems back onto
the places that triggered them. Together with twenty-three poems by
Hugo, McCue's essays and Randlett's photographs offer a fresh view of
Hugo's Northwest.
Frances McCue is a writer and poet living in
Seattle, where she is writer-in-residence at the University of
Washington's Undergraduate Honors Program. She was the founding director
of Richard Hugo House from 1996 to 2006. McCue is the author of The
Stenographer's Breakfast, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Mary
Randlett is a Northwest photographer noted for her portraits of artists
and writers. Mary Randlett Landscapes celebrates her photographs of the
natural world.
Join Frances and Mary on
Thursday, September 9, at noon in the UW Tower AuditoriumSunday, September 19, at 1 p.m. at The Rose Theatre in Port Townsend, for an event co-sponsored by The Writers' Workshoppe, Sunrise Coffee, The Leader, and Max Garver StudioSunday, September 26, at 3 p.m. at Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge IslandWednesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Horizon House, with Elliott Bay Books |
Christopher Howell
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|  Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected
This generous volume of new and selected poems by Christopher Howell
encompasses three decades of his distinguished work, drawing upon all of
his previous books. Dreamless and Possible chronicles his wide range of
interests, expressed by blending elements of the surreal with
biography, imagist economy with a storyteller's informality. It also
shows the development of his signature style, reflected, as poet Albert
Goldbarth has written, in poems "connected by deep thought worn lightly,
and by large vision writ in small details."
These are poems of
palpable force. Howell thinks out loud as he works his way through what
charms, challenges, and defines the human project. He questions, tests
images and associations, and leaps, trusting himself, into midair. In
consequence, the cerebral energy propels his poems beyond statement and
into startlingly evocative modes, grappling with and sifting profound
matters of memory, imagination, and grief, tempered always by joy.
Christopher
Howell has previously published eight books of poetry, most recently
Light's Ladder. He has received numerous awards for his writing,
including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and two
Washington State Book Awards, and his work has been included
in the Pushcart Prize Anthology three times. He is professor of English and
creative writing at Eastern Washington University, and lives with his
family in Spokane.
Join Christopher on
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Victoria Adams
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|  Where Sky Meets Earth: The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams
Northwest landscape painter Victoria Adams is equally committed to the
landscape tradition and the creation of exquisite scenes that address
the contemporary desire for the sublime. Adams depicts idealized
landscapes that evoke virgin terrain, untouched by human intervention
and devoid of degradation. Through her reworking of landscape traditions
and conventions, her paintings reveal the inextricable connections
between beauty and the sublime and melancholia. Her paintings evoke the
deep desire for the perfect moment and heighten awareness of the
psychological impact of the idealized landscape. Adams presents the
landscape as a solitary experience with the immense and infinite sublime
-- a magnificent solitude.
Where Sky Meet Earth is the first
museum survey exhibition of Victoria Adams's work and is part of the
Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Perspective Series. Adams' work is held in
private and museum collections throughout the United States.
Join Victoria on
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