with no thought of future needs, esthetic or otherwise. Is Maya, illusion, leading the human race to Liao’s fate? The Blueness of It All W! hy does the blueness of Crater Lake remain in my imagination months later? The poem I tried to write, surging around in the jet boat, began by describing a blue hole. There is a feeling of hollowness, emptiness, elusiveness to it and its color. Scientists state that in the color spectrum blue and purple light rays have the shortest wave lengths but penetrate and diffuse the deepest. As the longer light waves fade out, the blue ones refract back to the surface through incredibly clear water. If a cup were dipped in it, the water brought to thirsty lips transparent. I think what body of water would be shockingly preturbs you about a big like this is its constant mutability—the wind and the patterns of light shift barely perceptibly yet surely every brief space of time. Crater Lake manifests subtle changes like those of human consciousness itself. The mind can’t keep Consumerist societies all over the world are gobbling irreplaceable resources higgledy- piggledy, with no thought of future needs, esthetic or otherwise. Is Maya, illusion, leading the human race to Liao’s fate? a r t & han dm a de p a p e rw o rk s PAPERMAKING ♦ PRINTMAKING * BOOK ARTS classes / supplies / custom papers I art WINTER ’90 CLASS SCHEDULE In cooperation with PSU/Continuing Education Jan 5- 6 & 19-20: Papermaking Applied I: ^ Traditional Process East & West Jan 12-13 & 26-27: Papermaking Applied II: Successful Methods Home/School/Studio Feb 2- 3 & 16-17: Papermaking Applied II: Paper Jewelry (Instructor: JOANN GILLES) Feb 9-10 & 23-24: Papermaking Applied II: Containers/Contents Mar 9-10: Papermaking/Book Arts I: Handmade Paper in Early Books &Incunabula (Saturday field trips to Rare Book Room, Multnomah County Library, Main Branch; and others TBA) , MARKLYNE offers slide talks, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops on papermaking,. printmaking, and the book arts, both in-studio or at your facility, for conferences, meetings, or groups. Call 281-5450 __________for registration & information__________ 4460SE15th and Holgate Rear en trance of Carpet C ity b u ild in g up with it! Only in the morning is it calm. That’s the time of day a Hindoo guru would immerse himself—merging with its spiritual blue essence. Finally, blue is the color of sadness, hinting of eternity. And what’s that if not death? When you look up, that same evanescence reflects back into your eyes from the azure sky. Water mirrors blue sky, and we’re caught in the cosmos in between. The space probe Voyager notes from beyond Neptune one lone blue dot in our part of the galaxy. Lonesome blue planet earth. Fie on energy drillers and economic speculators! Their greed corrosively eats holes in every part of the irreparable, mystic biosphere. We journeyed to experience a grand bit of unspoiled, primeval beauty—Crater Lake— and found it on the verge of despoliation. Walt Curtis, a native Northwesterner, has written for Clinton St. since its 1979 inception. His most recent story was a portrait of Poet Hazel Hall. Welcome back Clinton Street Quarterly. We've missed your wit, your words, your wide worldly perspective. From the folks at Red & Black Books 432 - 15th Ave. E. Seattle (206) 322-READ M-Th 10-8 ~ Fri & Sat 10-10 - Sun 12-8 Curtis Recommends A Dozen Great Northwest Books 1. Far Corner, A Personal View o f the Pacific Northwest by Stewart Holbrook. Debunking and delighting, the Portland historian writes of the Wobblies, Erickson’s Saloon, Aurora Colony, logging, and the myths and symbols of our special region of the U.S. Comstock paperback. Also recommended: Holy O ld Mackinaw . 2. Paul Bunyan by James Stevens. In a literary manner, Stevens popularized the mythical logger of American folklore (Alfred Knopf, 1925). He co-authored “Status Rerun,” a manifesto on the deplorable state of Northwest letters, with his close friend H.L. Davis. Comstock paperback. 3. The Egg A n d I by Betty MacDonald. Life on a Puget Sound chicken ranch. Ma and Pa Kettle are their closest neighbors. Cougar Hot Springs—a less-than idyllic finale. GREAT BOOKS ARE SITTING IN T H E C A TB IR D SEAT ! PORTLAND’S BEST AUTHORS ARE SITTING IN THE CATBIRD SEAT Make this an Oregon Holiday Season with Books by These and Other Wonderful Oregon Writers GVTBIRD 913 BPOADW.M. PODTLWD.OP.97205 2225817 This book is still a bestseller! A housewife’s eye-view of geoducks and other curiosities peculiar to our landscape, including the people. Harper and Row paperback. 4. The S e lec ted Poem s O f H aze l Hall is the crippled seamstress' marvelous work. Beth Bentley introduces this only volume of HaH in print, which needs to be amplified. An early feminist, her distinguished poetry deserves natiopal recognition once again. She is as good as Emily Dickenson. Ahsahta Press, Boise State University. 5. The D is tan t Music by Harold Lenoir Davis. This chronicle of the Mulock family and their relationship to the land is Davis’ last novel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, he wrote as well as anyone in the Pacific Northwest, including Ken Geek Love - Katherine Dunn River Song - Craig Lesley Quotidian II - Gudrun Cable Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot - John Callahan Fear of Fly Fishing - Jack Ohman OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 913 SW Broadway 222-5817 Hours: M - Th: 9:30 AM - 9:30 PM, Fri: 9:30 AM -11 PM. Sat: 10:00 AM -11:00 PM, Sun: 10:00 AM - 9:30 PM Clinton St. Dec. '89-Jan. ’90 11
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