2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award WINNER
Finalist in the "Fiction and Poetry" category for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Nature (Adult Nonfiction)
40 weeks (as of 4/4/24) on the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association bestseller list
Finalist in the "Fiction and Poetry" category for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Nature (Adult Nonfiction)
40 weeks (as of 4/4/24) on the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association bestseller list
Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield;
Mountaineers Books, March 2023 400 pages, ISBN: 978-1-68051-622-7 Cascadia Field Guide brings together art, poetry, and stories holding scientific, sensory, and cultural knowledge to celebrate and illuminate Cascadia, the diverse ecoregion stretching from Alaska’s Prince William Sound to Northern California and from the Pacific Coast to the Continental Divide.
This unique book contains 13 communities (from Tidewater Glacier to Shrub-Steppe) and 128 beings (from Geoduck to Devil's Club to Cassia Crossbill), offering locals and visitors a new way of connecting-–with heart and mind and body-–to place. Praise for Cascadia Field Guide:
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upcoming eventsApril 16, 2024
Visit to Bellevue College 12:00 PM. CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield will be visiting an environmental sciences class to discuss Cascadia Field Guide and the power of blending science and art. Bellevue, WA. April 20, 2024 The Ecopoetry of Cascadia 5:00 PM. Derek Sheffield will be poking around the wilds of ecopoetry in a talk peppered with readings from Cascadia Field Guide at the Orcas Island Library alongside contributor Jill McCabe Johnson. Orcas Island, WA. April 23, 2024 Celebrating Earth Day, Poetry Month, and Cascadia Field Guide’s Pacific Northwest Book Award 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Derek Sheffield reads with Katharine Whitcomb, Jack Johnson, and Kevin Craft at Water from Wine, next to A Book for All Seasons. Leavenworth, WA. More Events Recent reviews
What strikes me about the collection is its accessibility. The field notes aren’t the usual dry fare of facts and measurements. They’re vivid and relatable. This is how we meet the northern spotted owl:
“It’s night. You’re in the woods. Shush of wind through needles. Patting rain. Then, improbably, what sounds like someone blowing on a stem of grass trapped between their thumbs, and echo of a farmer’s rising Soooo-ee!” The opening paragraph on the mountain goat demonstrates the guide’s refreshing mix of information, local custom, and wonder. ––Washington Independent Review of Books, March, 2024 |
Where is Cascadia?
SOUTHEAST ALASKA, IDAHO, OREGON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON--AND BITS OF MONTANA, CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, WYOMING... Cascadia is a place defined not by political maps but by watersheds. Cascadia is defined, according to the Sightline Institute, by “the watersheds of rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean through North America’s temperate rainforest zone.” Bates McKee first used the word Cascadia to define a region in 1972. David McCloskey, a Seattle University bioregionalist, then used the term in 1993 to describe and map a “land of falling waters." Do you live in Cascadia? See the map below.
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Each community of Cascadia Field Guide is illuminated by a different artist from Cascadia; these artists work in form line design, cut paper, pen and ink, and approach their work in sensibilities from playful to scientific. We invited them to be free in their engagements, and the love and play shines through.
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Writers with deep ties to the region–-both established and emerging-–engage Orca, Mountain Goat, Bitterbrush, and other iconic and endemic beings in Cascadia Field Guide. They are urban and rural, old and young, and write from a wide range of cultures spanning this vast land. 40 poems in Cascadia Field Guide are newly-written just for this book.
WRITERS include Sherman Alexie, Betsy Aoki, Rick Barot, Linda Bierds, Allen Braden, Robert Bringhurst, Laura Da', Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer, Chris Dombrowski, Kathleen Flenniken, Tess Gallagher, Lyanda Haupt, Kim Heacox, Sean Hill, Garret Hongo, Ever Jones, Keetje Kuipers, Robert Lashley, Dorianne Laux, Ursula K. LeGuin, Denise Levertov, Claudia Castro Luna, Colleen J. McElroy, Kevin Miller, Shankar Naryan, Richard Nelson, Lucia Perillo, Jennifer Perrine, Vivian Faith Prescott, Matt Rader, Lois Red Elk, Laura Read, Paisley Rekdal, Theodore Roethke, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Rob Taylor, Alexandra Teague, Jane Wong, Joe Wilkins, Robert Wrigley, Bill Yake, Isaac Yuen, Maya Jewell Zeller, Jan Zwicky...and more. |