199. Derek Sheffield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Elizabeth Bradfield - Defining Cascadia: A Cultural Celebration

<p data-aura-rendered-by="4324:20765;a">What comes to mind when you think of the Pacific Northwest? You might think of land forms like the Cascade Mountains, Olympic Peninsula, and the Willamette Valley, or of the Coast Salish and other Indigenous peoples who lived here since time immemorial. Or perhaps you’d think of urban centers like Vancouver, Seattle, or Portland, and the city-dwellers who call them home. And don’t forget the iconic flora and fauna that live and grow here –– lush ferns and mosses, huckleberries, salmon, orcas, and the mountain beaver. These, and so much more, define our region as a unique and special place found nowhere else on earth. This is Cascadia, stretching from Southeast Alaska to Northern California and from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Divide.</p> <p data-aura-rendered-by="4324:20765;a">In a collection of art, poetry, and stories just as diverse as the region itself, <em>the </em><strong><em>Cascadia Field Guide</em></strong> brings together scientific, sensory, and cultural knowledge to celebrate this unique corner of North America. Editors Derek Sheffield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Elizabeth Bradfield bring together dozens of authors and artists to describe 13 communities (from Tidewater Glacier to Shrub-Steppe) and 128 beings (from cryptobiotic soil to the giant Pacific octopus) that fill Cascadia with wonder.</p> <p data-aura-rendered-by="4324:20765;a">Ranging from comic to serious, colloquial to scientific, urban to off-the-grid, and narrative to postmodern, the <em>Cascadia Field Guide</em> offers any reader, local or visitor, a new way of connecting -– with heart and mind and body -– to place.</p> <p data-aura-rendered-by="4324:20765;a"><strong>Derek Sheffield</strong> grew up in the Willamette Valley and on the shores of the Salish Sea. He is the author of four books, including <em>Not for Luck</em>, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and his poems have appeared in <em>High Country News</em>, <em>Poetry</em>, and <em>Orion</em>. For the past 20 years, he has tau