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Praise for Insects of South Corvallis
"The authentic presence of these poems is remarkable and offers the genuine protein—the verbs, the nouns, the images, and the voice—that only the best poetry has. Each poem is loaded with discoveries and gives us both an immediateand particular event and the distillation of long experience. This is one of thefinest books I've read in years."
—Vern Rutsala
"Spiders, sow bugs, aphids, house flies, cabbage moths, stinging nettles—not to mention beans, peach pits, and the pockets of warm air lingering under willows—Goodrich's concern for all of nature, including us, is extraordinary, and absolutely genuine."
—GingerAndrews
"There is something quintessentially northwestern about Goodrich's poems. They have the simplicity, grace, and wistful humor of the poems of Kenneth O. Hanson as well as the commitment to daily life that marked William Stafford's poems." —David Romtvedt
"His seemingly casual poems have the artful simplicity of Japanese flower
arrangement. Each one is a little object to behold and ponder. Bashō would have liked them."
—Clem Starck
Praise for The Practice of Home:
“So fervently is the possibility of and hope for a good life embraced in this book, reading it at times brought tears to my eyes. Here is a wry and poetic glimpse into a man's home-making. May we all be so embedded in family, community and place -- which is to say, home -- and so heroically dedicated to them. Goodrich's life makes sense.”
–Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
"The Practice of Home is a celebration of the work of hands; a meditation on the ecology of sacred spaces; an argument for one’s dwelling as a vital nexus of the communal, the familial, and the private; and above all a resounding confirmation that beneath the apparent lunacy of building one’s own house lies the deep and satisfying sanity of a life that is literally home-made."
–Ted Leeson, author of The Habit of Rivers
“In essays that are rueful and funny and humane, Charles Goodrich brings his poet's sense of rejoicing and his gardener's sense of hope to a patch of thistle-infested land. Gently, brilliantly, he shows us that home is a way of life. Anyone who has searched to find a place on earth--which is to say, everyone--will find comfort and laughter in this book, and new understanding of what it means to be a human being.”
– Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox
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