Blaze
Poems by Peggy Shumaker, paintings by Kesler E Woodward
Red Hen Press, 2005
Hardcover, 160 pages
ISBN: 1-59709-054-9
List Price: $39.95

Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN: 1-59709-053-0
List Price: $29.95

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BLAZE

ABOUT THE BOOK

Savoring Alaskan landscapes by way of birch trees has become Kes Woodward's trademark. This collection brings together thirty years of his birch portraits and forest close-ups.

Over the same thirty years, poet Peggy Shumaker has traveled inner landscapes via images drawn from two deserts—the Sonoran and the subarctic. Her poems embody the harsh beauty of heat and cold, the force of true extremes.

Wounded trees, marked paths, slashes of color. Bursts of passion, licks of flame. The sensual spirits of two imaginations at work fuel this volume.

FROM THE BOOK

Winter Hip deep in heaped snow birches sway. By their example, we know the alpenglow will one day rise, the sun limping now will lift itself higher and stay a little longer. Sun on the birches' broken places, sun on wounds, on scars ... Winter sun showing us our shadows contain colors we barely dream of ...

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