Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast
Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon’s magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderfully written vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America’s most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coast lines. Wind on the Waves evokes the feelings of wonder and joy, the miracle of existence, the significance of humanity—and its insignificance compared to the power of the sea. Being open to the world is a gift—one which Kim Stafford has shared so well. These words from one of Oregon’s most influential writers are the song of life sung on the stage of the shore, and the wind, and the waves.
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Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast
Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon’s magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderfully written vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America’s most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coast lines. Wind on the Waves evokes the feelings of wonder and joy, the miracle of existence, the significance of humanity—and its insignificance compared to the power of the sea. Being open to the world is a gift—one which Kim Stafford has shared so well. These words from one of Oregon’s most influential writers are the song of life sung on the stage of the shore, and the wind, and the waves.
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Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast

Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast

by Stafford
Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast
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Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast

Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast

by Stafford

Overview

Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon’s magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderfully written vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America’s most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coast lines. Wind on the Waves evokes the feelings of wonder and joy, the miracle of existence, the significance of humanity—and its insignificance compared to the power of the sea. Being open to the world is a gift—one which Kim Stafford has shared so well. These words from one of Oregon’s most influential writers are the song of life sung on the stage of the shore, and the wind, and the waves.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780882409467
Publisher: WestWinds Press
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 821 KB

About the Author

Kim Stafford has taught since 1979 at Lewis and Clark College, where he is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and codirector of the Documentary Studies program. He also serves as the literary executor for the estate of William Stafford. He has worked as an oral historian, letterpress printer, editor, photographer, teacher, and visiting writer in communities and colleges across the country, and in Italy, Scotland, and Bhutan. Stafford has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft; Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford; and Having Everything Right: Essays of Place. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award, and a Western States Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children.

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She woke in room number seven, heard the waves, and had to be there. Her candle must have gone out. It smelled of burnt wick. Her book lay wedged where it had tumbled by the pillow. From bed, she couldn't hear a car, or a voice, not even TV. Through the wall, she could just catch the low breathing of the surf, pushing, and sliding away. She fumbled on jeans and a sweater, stepped into her damp tennis shoes, took the key, and went out. She had to find danger, not this longing for love. Love was good, but longing was tough. You could wait forever, and wither. Like the sea, longing could take you out and give back bones. Forget that. Feel the cold and be strong. Fog drifted around a streetlight. It settled in her hair, in the wool folds of her sweater, softening everything. Gravel nibbled her shoes' thin soles. At the road's end, feeling with her feet, she found the stair to the beach and went down, her hand gripping tight on the punky wood of the rail, her eyes closed to know it better, until with a gasp she took the last long step to sand.

Table of Contents

Finding a Place to be Afraid Rogue Wave Courtship at Indian Beach Diary Entry: Our Coast Sweet Light Elegy Flavor of Solitude Brother Wind The Play of Moving Water More Flower than Leaf Phone Call Cross the Water to Live Alone Coffee at the Eavesdrop Cafe A Cove of Your Own Creatures of the Mountain I Thought It Would Be Bigger A Bubble Can't Last Long The Moon's Work Who Married Seal Ocean Lullaby Bear Cave Cove More Children Weekend at the Coast Skull of the Jellyfish Grandma Dewey Shell Ash at the Midden Pretty Intruder Where Goes the Wind? The Edge Effect in Jazz and Salt Cedar Pirate Knower and Forgetter Ship Catch Wind Salmon at Sweet Creek Lonesome Bliss A Wave's Purpose Loon in the Spruce Empty Handed Out There Hideaway Conversation at the Stump Go Ask the Owls A Tree with Arms Dune Buggy Tao Lucille and the Secrets of Fog Storm Watch I Know Every Rock in This Harbor Razor Tongue of the Limpet A Tug on the Line Redhead Roundup Inkling Wind on the Waves Acknowledgments
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