This book is about bears. Over 150 poets, such as Hayden Carruth, Billy Collins, Mary Crow, Ruth Daigon, Jim Harrison, George Keithley, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Ursula LeGuin, Judith Minty, N. Scott Momaday, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Susan Terris and others, write about bears as they exist in the wild and in our minds. Bears occupy a "most favored animal" status in the spiritual lives of many people and cultures, from the deep past to the present day. Their myths are rich and varied. The poems are divided into seven categories: nature, dreams, myths, persona, misc., encountered, endangered. The book is full of illustrations. 8 1/2 x 10, perfect bound, full color cover. $1 from the sale of each book will be donated to groups striving to preserve bears and their habitats.
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Editor's biography: CB Follett has been widely published, won prizes and grants and has three collections of poetry: "Visible Bones" (1998 Plain View Press); "Gathering the Mountains" (1995) and "The Latitudes of Their Going" (1993) (both from Hot Pepper Press). Besides GRRRRR, she is also the Editor/Publisher of the anthology "Beside the Sleeping Maiden, Poets of Marin (1997 Arctos Press). She has been nominated for five Pushcard Prizes in Poetry.
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The old bear plays a game much like quoits; he splashes water rings over the lake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, United States, British Columbia, Native American, New Mexico, Selected Poems, Pulitzer Prize, Forest Service, Glacier National Park, Poetry Northwest New!
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The old bear plays a game much like quoits; he splashes water rings over the lake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, United States, British Columbia, Native American, New Mexico, Selected Poems, Pulitzer Prize, Forest Service, Glacier National Park, Poetry Northwest New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Against Nature: Wilderness Poems by Judith McCombs in Front Matter, and page 226
- Grandmother Says by J. D. Whitney in Front Matter, and page 232
- What Grandmother Says: The Complete Grandmother Poems by J. D. Whitney in Front Matter, and page 232
- On Hogback Mountain by Elaine Magarrell in Front Matter, and page 226
- Lizard Light: Poems from the Earth by Penny Harter in Front Matter, and page 223
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