Liz Nakazawa, Editor

In this collection, thirty-three of Oregon’s most esteemed poets write about the state they call home. Arranged by eco-region and accompanied by maps, these ageless poems let readers travel the state with the poets, pausing at places of inspiration. Connection with nature and the importance of family are just two of the themes readers will find along they way.

Editor Liz Nakazawa offers the inspiration for her collection: After attending a William Stafford poetry reading, she was so moved by the juxtaposition of both eastern and western Oregon in the poems that she heard that she soon began collecting submissions from some of the state’s most gifted and acclaimed poets. This search resulted in Deer Drink the Moon, an anthology Liz calls a collection of flowers … a bouquet of the richest poetry celebrating Oregon, written by the poets who live here.

For more information: ooligan.deerdrinkthemoon@pdx.edu

ISBN: 978-1-932010-16-9
6″ x 9″, softcover
208 pages
$19.95

About the Editor

Liz Nakazawa

Editor Liz Nakazawa has been a freelance writer since 1984 and has published numerous articles on a variety of subjects including health, gardening, education, architecture, the environment, and small businesses. Her articles have appeared in the Oregonian, Oregon Business Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has also published in Psychology Today, American Health and Fitness Magazine, and Northwest Travel.

Praise

Liz Nakazawa has plucked gems of our genius loci—the “Spirit of Place”—from thirty-three Oregon authors, and set them before us. Grouped by ecoregion, the images of sand dollars, apricot-scented mushrooms, frozen rivers, ground fog, bone-dry drought and parched creeks, and of course rain, many kinds of rain, provide the backdrop that defines us all.
— Carla Perry, author of Laughing Like Dogs

Travel to the Coastal Range, where “the tide calls my name,” where the tides measure our lives. Go to the Blue Mountains where the Burnt River freezes over. Linger at Harney Lake where the land implores you to stop talking. This is a land of rain where the sky is “gray as wax” and “the steelhead blazes like a mirror catching sun”. Go to these places by whatever means will carry you. Open the pages of this book.
— Charles Seluzicki, fine press publisher and rare book dealer.

Here are poems that, taken together, form a painterly portrait of Oregon in all its astonishing breadth of weather and landscapes, poems that, individually, astonished me with their beauty and multiformity, poems that reminded me again and again how lucky I am to live here.
— Molly Glass, author of The Jump-Off Creek