Coos River Reverberations

Guy Craig's debut collection of over fifty poems is an invitation to place in a beautiful yet sometimes precarious tidal river valley. Here are poems full of sound, motion, spirit, and delight to match the Pacific Northwest's unique Coos River Valley, Oregon, sometimes referred locally as "The Garden Valley." Craig plays whimsically with rhyme, imagery, humor, form, and philosophy. Escape town on a tidal river, reflect on a rope swing tryst, strategically survive a windstorm, escape a cow jam, be more like skunk cabbage, test generational ties to the land, fly into endless ferns, and commiserate with one of the last forest-spirits in lost myrtle groves. Coos River Reverberations is a journey full of childhood memories, dangers of nature, wrestling with loss, returns home, and questions about the future.