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First Edition (August 10, 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1947465039 Trade Paper 6" x 9" 127 pages Published by Kelsay Books Cover Artwork by Jan Boles |
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“In Lichen Songs George Venn, veteran Pacific Northwest scholar and bard, collects his poems that observe both sides of the wet-dry (West-East) divide. If you want to taste the rural Northwest on your tongue, turn to Venn’s poems.”
—O. Alan Weltzien, Exceptional Mountains
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“What a detective of place George Venn is; how private his eyes are! Yet in Lichen Songs you come to know what a good man can make known, what an avid man can feel, and what, in George Venn's hands, the craft of poetry can do. He magnifies the landscape and what he sees turns to music—a choir of wheeling nature, students, family, lovers, still rooms. You will find much to care for in this bright man's new and selected work.”
—Dan Lamberton, On the River Through the Valley of Fire
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“This is poetry of big love, great heart. George Venn's scale is immense and inclusive…. Like Tom McGrath, George Venn tells the stories of his region in such a way as to make them magical, luminous, and permanent…”
—James Bertolino, Ravenous Bliss
—O. Alan Weltzien, Exceptional Mountains
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“What a detective of place George Venn is; how private his eyes are! Yet in Lichen Songs you come to know what a good man can make known, what an avid man can feel, and what, in George Venn's hands, the craft of poetry can do. He magnifies the landscape and what he sees turns to music—a choir of wheeling nature, students, family, lovers, still rooms. You will find much to care for in this bright man's new and selected work.”
—Dan Lamberton, On the River Through the Valley of Fire
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“This is poetry of big love, great heart. George Venn's scale is immense and inclusive…. Like Tom McGrath, George Venn tells the stories of his region in such a way as to make them magical, luminous, and permanent…”
—James Bertolino, Ravenous Bliss