So Simmons mentioned Cascadia Field Guide.
And just a few days ago, we got the amazing news
that it was one of the winners of the Pacific Northwest
Booksellers Award.
It was five years of work between with my co-editors Liz
Bradfield and CMarie Fuhrman.
And it's such a special project to be part of.
We had no idea that it was going to be as well-received as it
has been--
I mean, for I don't know.
I mean, it's been one of the best selling
books for the last 35 weeks.
I mean, we're not used to that.
We're poets.
I mean, we publish a book of poems.
And then we have boxes of books, of our own books at home.
That's what happens in the poetry world.
But this book uses, it's an anthology.
And we have this amazing array of contributors
of poets and artists.
And it's a very, very special kind of field guide.
It's an artistic field guide that actually was--
the genesis for this book comes from the Sonoran desert
actually.
And it comes from Simmons Bunton being part of a literary field
guide to the Sonoran desert.
I think that was about maybe 8 or 10 years ago when
that book came out, and Simmons was one of the contributors.
And ever since that happened, Simmons
had really been encouraging me to do something like that
for the Pacific Northwest.
And then as we began working on it,
we realized it needed to be Cascadia
so that it could combine bio-regional ways of thinking
with everything else it's doing.
And as I was saying, it uses poetry, and visual art,
and science written in an accessible, engaging manner
of voice that you're not used to hearing science in,
and cultural knowledge, traditional ecological
knowledge, in as many ways as possible,
including how it's organized and the language that it uses,
to par--
And I'm paraphrasing Thomas Berry here, a marvelous
philosopher--
The book really reveals Cascadia as a communion of subjects,
not a collection of objects.
And it's so special.
And as Simmons mentioned--
what's this?
Hold it.
OK.
Yes, I'm getting confirmation.
The people at Mountaineers Press are
saying that in honor of the 25th anniversary of Terrain.org,
there is a 20% discount on Cascadia Field Guide tonight.
So I do know that there is a box in Tucson.
I'm not in Tucson.
But there is a box of those books.
And honestly, it is so hard to get a hold of.
I mean, 10,000 copies have found readers since March 1,
when it was published.
It's so hard to get a hold of that even
the great and powerful University of Arizona Bookstore
was not able to get copies.
That's why I had Mountaineers ship a box directly to Simmons.