In Blue Mountain Dusk

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REVIEWS:

“Tim McNulty has become one of the strongest poetic voices for a huge realm that is new to history: the north Pacific, the western edge of the continent. These fresh, clear poems are full of subtle crossings from the wild to the human, from the ongoing world of forest work and life to the emergence of the new urban Northwest. Friends, family, tracks, the northern stretch, the spaces, and the cool darkness of the woods. Poems of craft and deep awareness that are graceful and hard-won.” —GARY SNYDER

“Tim McNulty’s poems belong to the where and what of his life in a rare degree. They live in equality with moss, ferns, flakes of bark, river stones, roots, buds; their mountains are particular mountains. Reading them puts one among these things he knows with such authentic intimacy. If the tone of his evocations is more often elegaic than exultant it is because such close knowledge must involve, in our day, a great sense of mourning for the daily demise of so much; yet his love for what he evokes gives song to his images and inspires, even among those who may never see more than their outskirts, a will to cherish and defend the remaining wild places.” —DENISE LEVERTOV

“Humor, sensitivity, and passion mark this distinctively Northwestern work.” —WRITERS NORTHWEST

“McNulty’s strong poetic voice reveals the beauty of mountains, streams, moss… His writing creates an intimacy between the reader and wilderness and inspires efforts to protect it.” —WILD EARTH

ABOUT TIM MCNULTY:

Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, conservation activist, and nature writer. He was born and grew up in Connecticut’s Quinnipiac River Valley and attended Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. There he met poet Denise Levertov who inspired him with her powerful fusion of visionary poetics and political activism. Tim traveled throughout the West after college and settled on the Olympic Peninsula in 1972. He lives with his wife, Mary Morgan, in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains above the Dungeness and Graywolf rivers. A passionate spokesman for the wild, Tim remains active in the Northwest environmental community.

Tim’s poems, essays, criticism, and articles on nature and conservation have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and abroad. His natural history writings have been translated into German, Chinese, and Japanese. He reads, lectures, teaches, and conducts workshops throughout the Northwest.

Tim is the author of nine books of poetry and eleven books of natural history. He has coauthored, with photographer Pat O’Hara, an award-winning series of books on national parks. Tim’s Olympic National Park: A Natural History won the Washington Governor’s Writers Award and was reissued in a new revised edition by the University of Washington Press. His Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, is available from The Mountaineers Books. Ascendance and Through High Still Air are available from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. http://timmcnultypoet.com/