Praise for Insects of South Corvallis "The authentic presence of these poems is remarkable and offers the genuine protein-the verbs, the nouns, the images, and the voice-that only the best poetry has. Each poem is loaded with discoveries and gives us both an immediate and particular event and the distillation of long experience. This is one of the finest books I've read in years." — Vern Rutsala
"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 "There is something quintessentially northwestern about Goodrich's poems. They have the simplicity, grace, and wistful humor of the poems of Kenneth O. Hansen as well as the commitment to daily life that marked William Stafford's poems." — David Romtvedt "His seemingly casual poems have the artful simplicity of Japanese flower arrangement. Each one is a little object to behold and ponder. Basho would have liked them." — Clem Starck Charles Goodrich worked for twenty-five years as a professional gardener and has also worked as a correctional work crew supervisor, a short-order cook, and a carpenter. Presently he is an instructor for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University. His poems and essays have appeared in Orion, The Sun, Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva and many other magazines. A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on his National Public Radio Program, The Writer's Almanac. excerpts
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