Open Books co-owner Christine Deavel was interviewed on the blog for the National Book Critics Circle recently. She talks about her new collection of poetry, Woodnote, and she recommends a few books. We could listen to Deavel talk about books all day, but, we have to say, we prefer our interview with her.
Woodnote was reviewed recently at Rocket Languages- American Sign Language
54/Crosscut-Tout:-The-artful-wildness-of–Woodnote–/”>Crosscut. Reviewer Judy Lightfoot says: ” . . .This beautiful volume, which won the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, is a quiet rhapsody on hidden or half-hidden things that often lie just outside our field of vision, and the unrecognized histories of such things. Formally a mix of free-verse lyrics with passages of spoken-voice prose, the poems have a spontaneous ease of the kind that comes only from well-practiced poetic craft . . .”
She goes on to say that: “Some of the poems read like storyboards for animated films: 'The starchy yarn of spring came / and knitted itself into a blue hyacinth / then unraveled that / and tatted itself into a columbine / then snipped it up / coated it in paste / and spread itself out to make a sky…' ”
Yes, these are poems for your daydreams. If you're a lover of words and images and you live in the Seattle area, go see Deavel read at Elliott Bay Book Company on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., or at Village Books in Bellingham on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m.
