Laying By

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Vince Wixon paints America's Midwest and Pacific Northwest "weightless." We go with the poems' airy, unobtrusive hand and eye-at times we slip in between the realm of ghosts and souls, mother in a coffin, father's life near its end-juxtaposed with the kitchen table lit up in brilliance. Time and desire, the personal private and the open and infinite are sketched here with a magnificent seeing-a keen wisdom balanced between landscape, family, childhood and the always-oscillating present. Laying By is magnetic, a rare tenderness and a collection of scenes, portraits, and life-roads to be cherished-Bravo! - Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate 2015-2017 Rich, dark loam figures in the poems that open and close this compelling collection, beginning with a plow turning up earth "oily and black as cinders, " and ending with the image of soil "black as coal." In between, Vince Wixon's Laying By offers fertile ground for reverie and epiphany: his meditative and elegiac work is rich with both sensory experience and striking insight. - Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate 2010-2014 These solid, compact, workmanlike poems, often startling in their simplicity, are a pleasure to read. Ranging from boyhood memories of farm life in the Midwest to mature reflections and observations from a backyard in Oregon, they have both substance and credibility. There is often something mysterious lingering around their edges, like a wisp of smoke or a sudden long-forgotten fragrance. - Clemens Starck, Oregon Book Award Winner for Poetry