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Mar

8

2013

3

remarks

“Where’d You Go, Customer X?”

Don’t worry– this isn’t a scorching screed or a pitiful whine. It’s not even a calmly reasoned exegesis on the state of contemporary bookselling or contemporary poetry or (Lord help us) both. At least that’s not my intent. Lately I’ve been thinking about all the people over the years who unexpectedly stopped coming into my …

Nov

29

2012

A Big Year for Poetry Books
(Or Rather, A Year for Big Poetry Books)

Ah, the pleasures of a slender volume of verse. Like the one leaf left glowing on a late autumn tree, it is a captivating thing, made all the more powerful by its hint of the ephemeral, its brevity. Yet a tome of poems can be equally enthralling, with a pleasurable heft that comes not just …

Sep

8

2012

Deavel Wins a Washington State Book Award

We’re very proud of  Christine Deavel, co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium (and an NWBL columnist!), who just won a Washington State Book Award for her poetry collection, Woodnote. We interviewed her about the collection last year. Congrats, Christine! Congrats also to fiction winner Peter Mountford (A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism); biography/memoir winner …

Dec

13

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 13. Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel is a poet, a poetry bookseller and a consummate book recommender. Her versatile gift list offers suggestions for the artists, poets, toddlers and would-be surrealists on your list. Deavel’s debut collection of poetry, Woodnote, was the winner of the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. We interviewed her about the book here. When we asked …

Oct

20

2011

Rhapsodizing 'Woodnote'

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 …

Sep

6

2011

Christine Deavel

That Intimate Vastness: Life in the
Poe Biz with Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel’s first book, Woodnote, has just been published by Bear Star Press and has won the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Author Rebecca Brown calls Deavel “a kind of Midwest nature mystic whose words call us to see what we see clearly and then to call the things we see by their true names.” …

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