The Northwest author, who died last year, left behind a collection of whip-smart, stylishly brilliant work. By Jeff Baker, Special to The Seattle Times. When Lucia Perillo read her poems at a restaurant in Portland last year, her readers showed up to let her know what she meant to them. One by one, they approached …
Ursula K. Le Guin and Roger Dorband have collaborated on a new coffee table book about the Steens Mountain country of southeastern Oregon. In her introduction to Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country, Le Guin describes the area as “out there from both the east and from the west. And that’s as it …
The Oregonian’s Jeff Baker recently reviewed the brand new Ken Kesey biography, Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD, and the Politics of Ecstasy (Schaffner Press, October, 2010) by Mark Christensen. Amazingly, this is the first Kesey biography, and Baker mostly likes it. He calls Acid Christ an admirable and ambitious book and says Christensen “did tons …
