A Scripture of Crows
Charles Goodrich's books include two earlier poetry collections, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, and Insects of South Corvallis, and a collection of essays, The Practice of Home. He also co-edited the volume In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens. His poems and essays have appeared in Orion, Northwest Review, Willow Springs, The Sun, and Best Essays Northwest among many other publications, and his poems have been read more than a dozen times by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac." Following a long career as a professional gardener, he now serves as Director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University.