Beaver's Fire

This unique source book gathers works first published by various northwest editors and newly-selected for reprinting by independent jurors from over 100 pieces. The portfolio is arranged in reverse chronology and includes: over 50 historical/archival images of editors, writers, poets, books, events, radicals, and photographers; symposia and essays on northwest literature, Chief Joseph speech, William Stafford, and C.E.S. Wood; 1877 Nez Perce War Diary of poet C. E .S. Wood; translations of poems & essay on the most famous Chinese Modernist poet Ai Qing; biographical sketches of Fred Hill, Minor White, C.E.S. Wood, and Nard Jones; reviews of poetry and prose by over twenty Northwest writers; public addresses on Nez Perce myth, regionalism, Wallace Stegner, editing and Oregon literature; interviews with Carolyn Kizer, Ursula LeGuin, and Richard Hugo; and a dialogue on northwest poetics at Wallowa Lake.