What We Love Will Save Us
Kelson Books, September 16, 2009.
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City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary
Oregon State University Press, Spring 2006.
How can community decisions mesh with individual rights? Is there an “us” that can develop a rich communal life in an urban context? Portland’s “Urban Growth Boundary” represents one of America’s premier experiments in urban planning – preventing sprawl, encouraging urban density, and preserving open space and farm land between urban areas.
I took a 260-mile trek along the Boundary, kayaking the river portions and walking in neighborhoods, forests, mountain trails, vineyards, and wide-open wheat fields. I also invited collaborators to spend a day walking with me and then contribute to the book: writer Kathleen Dean Moore (The Pine Island Paradox and many other books), Metro President David Bragdon, and other urbanists, environmentalists, growers, artists, and developers.
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Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature
Oregon State University Press, February 2003.
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Channeling Walt in Time of War
February 2004.
A poetry chapbook searching for creative hopefulness despite war, official lying, and mass murder; letterpress-printed by gifted Portland book artist Inge Bruggeman on fine paper. A physically beautiful book, bearing an inspiring quartet of poems.
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The Heron Place
1999.
An award-winning poem about language, landscape, and memory.
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Peace in Exile
Oyster River Press, 1992. ISBN: 0961748192
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Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science
Oregon State University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0870713574
This book, a forerunner to David Oates’ current work, was praised by the eminent ecologist and social theorist, the late Paul Shepard, as an “audacious effort” to synthesize and find the meaning of the modern environmental movement, “one of the best I have seen.”
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