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The editors at Cloudbank Books are happy to announce a new literary magazine, Cloudbank, which will be published twice a year beginning in 2009. To help launch the magazine we are offering a prize of $200 for one poem, which will be published in the first issue of the magazine. For more information and how to submit to the magazine, click the "Contest" button below.

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A Bride of Narrow Escape  by Paulann Petersen
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. As a board member for Friends of William Stafford, she organizes the annual January Stafford Birthday Events. $12.95


Praise for A Bride of Narrow Escape

After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake and the exotic Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us A Bride of Narrow Escape. The poems of this “retrospective narrative” open with the final illness of the father, then that of the mother. This section, in particular, contains stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender. From there, we move to the story of the author's growing up, as luck would have it, the only grandchild of a furrier. This places her in an environment rich in occasions and linguistic opportunities for poems. We follow the childhood and the teen years with their drama of sexual awakening into the final section where poems return to the late present and the ongoing romance of married love.
Madeline DeFrees





Journeyman's Wages

Clemens Starck

"Some truly extraordinary poems here. Easily, gracefully, right up there with the best work being done today."
Jim Harrison

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Out of Town
Lex Runciman

In Out of Town, “memory and repetition drive Lex Runciman’s moral investigations of a world —our world—which he suspects may be an inappropriate place to investigate morally. But what other world is there?”
Andrew Hudgins


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Millennial Spring: Eight New Oregon Poets
 
“This is how poetry should feela community of warm, inviting voices,
a circle well-spoken, fierly-lit friends. ... Bravo to Cloudbank Books for sharing these voices—and to Oregon, that sacred domain.”
Naomi Shihab Nye


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Solar Prominence
Kevin Craft

“The intelligence, the imagination, the quick humor in Solar Prominence all point in the same direction: toward the poem as a made thing, a thing of light, crafted, the way craft, through its various art, transforms the generalities into the specifics of magic.”
Stanley Plumly


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Insects of South Corvallis
Charles Goodrich

“Spiders, sow bugs, aphids, house flies, cabbage moths, stinging nettles—not to mention beans, peach pits, and the pockets of warm air lingering under willows—Goodrich's concern for all of nature, including us, is extraordinary, and absolutely genuine.”
 Ginger Andrews


Luge
Peter Sears

"Peter Sears is an heir to Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch. These breezy, sometimes manic poems veer off in unexpected directions, a sensibility at once comic and disarmingly revealing."
Dorianne Laux

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The Brink
Peter Sears

“Is there any other poet who has sung so deeply and accurately of the old? I don't think so. Given its range and depth and steadily illuminating language, The Brink is a remarkable book.”
Vern Rutsala



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Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body
George Estreich

George Estreich is an engaging, alert, intelligent, playful, and exhilarating poet, and his Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body is a superb debut.”
Michael McFee


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My Problem with the Truth

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson's My Problem with the Truth is a book of largess and celebration. Its poems rise out of a quality of attention—to feeling, thought, and, above all, language—that both prompts and invites similar focus, similar absorption, from readers.”
Lex Runciman

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Tour - New & Selected Poems
Peter Sears

Peter SearsTour is a delight—from the watercolor blushes for loved ones, through the Monty Python self-conversations in emergencies, up to Sears’ copping a feel off the ineffable.”
Jack Myers
China Basin
Clemens Starck

"I have been crazy about Clem Starck's poetry ever since I read it a few years ago while picking him as the winner of the Oregon Book Award. I'm not alone in particularly cherishing poems by people who work with their hands. Carpenters, printers and factory workers are a fresh and vital antidote to the myriad of academic poets. Cheers for Clem!"
Carolyn Kizer

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