Böcker av Stacie Smith

Here, in Stacie Smith''s fifth collection of poems, are dispatches from these times, personal reports from the confluence of three streams: the realm of human events and behaviors, the realm of nature''s ways, and the realm of possibility created by their merging. All but one of the sixty poems in this collection were written in the years between 2018 and 2020, years that will long be remembered for a world-wide pandemic as well as social unrest and despair, years during which the stream of possibility appeared dry and deserted.

Inland a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, at the confluence of two salmon spawning streams is a place called Cougar Creek. Stacie Smith first visited Cougar Creek in the fall of 1998, going alone, approaching the place at dusk, guided by simple directions to the cabin perched high above the narrow road: "Find the big, old maple tree by the parking spot, and look for the little wooden dolphin sign nailed to the tree trunk. The dolphin's nose points to the trail up to the cabin." She found the trail, and by the very last of the day's light, she found the cabin. Smith fell instantly in love with the place-its majesty, constancy, and healing energy. This collection of impassioned poems was born from that love.