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Other Books, Essays, and Poetry
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City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary. Oregon State Universtiy Press, Spring 2006 How can community decisions mesh with individual rights? Is there an "us" that can develop a rich communal life in an urban context? Portland's "Urban Growth Boundary" represents one of America's premier experiments in urban planning -- preventing sprawl, encouraging urban density, and preserving open space and farm land between urban areas. I took a 260-mile trek along the Boundary, kayaking the river portions and walking in neighborhoods, forests, mountain trails, vineyards, and wide-open wheat fields. I also invited collaborators to spend a day walking with me and then contribute to the book: writer Kathleen Dean Moore (The Pine Island Paradox and many other books), Metro President David Bragdon, and other urbanists, environmentalists, growers, artists, and developers. |
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Channeling Walt in Time of War. February 2004. A poetry chapbook searching for creative hopefulness despite war, official lying, and mass murder; letterpress-printed by gifted Portland book artist Inge Bruggeman on fine paper. A physically beautiful book, bearing an inspiring quartet of poems. (Contact the author to buy a copy: $10.00 includes shipping.) |
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"The Heron Place," 1999. An award-winning poem about language, landscape, and memory.
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Peace in Exile. Oyster River Press, 1992. ISBN: 0961748192 (contact the the author for a signed copy, or visit Amazon.com).
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Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science. Oregon State University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0870713574 (available in trade paperback from the publisher or Amazon.com). This book, a forerunner to David Oates' current work, was praised by the eminent ecologist and social theorist, the late Paul Shepard, as an "audacious effort" to synthesize and find the meaning of the modern environmental movement, "one of the best I have seen."
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"Walking the UGB: A Displaced Angelino Discovers Distance, Loneliness, and Emotional Scale in Portland," Earth Island Journal (forthcoming)
"Some Questions about Sexless Nature Writing." The Place of Nature/The Nature of Place: Cultural Critique in the American West. Ed. Susan Kollin. (forthcoming)
"The Slashpile Inventory," Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2005)
"First Descent," (short story) Isotope (Spring 2004)
"Nature Is Not a Club to Bash People With," High Country News "Writers on the Range" Syndicate (February 2004)
"The Wildness of Failure" Northern Lights (Winter 2002)
"Queer Pants," The Bear Deluxe (Fall 2000)
Five essays in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds., Garland, 1998, ISBN: 0815318766)
"Practice of the Presence of the Wild," EarthLight: Magazine of Spirituality and Ecology (Winter 1990)
"Descendentalism: The Thoreauvian Inscape,"
Contemporary Philosophy 12 (1989)
"Social Darwinism and Natural Theodicy," Zygon: Journal
of Religion and Science 23 (1988)
Pablo Neruda Award finalist, Nimrod International, for
long poem, "The Heron Place,"
1999
Dovid Heersche Badonnah award for poetry, Bitterroot
International Poetry Magazine, 1983
Poems in many regional and national journals, including Yellow Silk, California Poetry Quarterly, PoetryLA, Fireweed, Green Fuse, Tsunami, Galley Sail, The Oregonian
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