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Oregon sojourn
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93 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 2001
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December 30, 2014
I was very pleased to have been a guest at a writers' conference where Rob Whitbeck taught a workshop and to have been published with him in an Oregon writers anthology. Sadly, I didn't get to attend his workshop or his reading, but I am so glad that I have now read a very fine interview he did and his first collection, Oregon Sojourn.
I really enjoyed the interview I read about his philosophy of writing and rural, working class subjects, and how this is a voice that is often lost in mainstream literary culture.
His collection Oregon Sojourn portrays both the beauty and the hardship of the rugged Eastern Oregon landscape. Some of my favorite poems were "On Cemetery Ridge" and "Sky Couple." Just beautiful work. I've seen him compared to contemporary writers, but at least from this collection, I really see him as a modern Wordsworth. The last poem in the collection is almost like a modern retelling of "Michael."
I really enjoyed the interview I read about his philosophy of writing and rural, working class subjects, and how this is a voice that is often lost in mainstream literary culture.
His collection Oregon Sojourn portrays both the beauty and the hardship of the rugged Eastern Oregon landscape. Some of my favorite poems were "On Cemetery Ridge" and "Sky Couple." Just beautiful work. I've seen him compared to contemporary writers, but at least from this collection, I really see him as a modern Wordsworth. The last poem in the collection is almost like a modern retelling of "Michael."
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