WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:04.460 --> 00:00:08.600 align:middle line:84% So Simmons mentioned Cascadia Field Guide. 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:12.260 align:middle line:84% And just a few days ago, we got the amazing news 00:00:12.260 --> 00:00:14.690 align:middle line:84% that it was one of the winners of the Pacific Northwest 00:00:14.690 --> 00:00:16.910 align:middle line:90% Booksellers Award. 00:00:16.910 --> 00:00:24.410 align:middle line:84% It was five years of work between with my co-editors Liz 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:27.020 align:middle line:90% Bradfield and CMarie Fuhrman. 00:00:27.020 --> 00:00:35.180 align:middle line:84% And it's such a special project to be part of. 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:41.510 align:middle line:84% We had no idea that it was going to be as well-received as it 00:00:41.510 --> 00:00:42.390 align:middle line:90% has been-- 00:00:42.390 --> 00:00:44.690 align:middle line:90% I mean, for I don't know. 00:00:44.690 --> 00:00:47.570 align:middle line:84% I mean, it's been one of the best selling 00:00:47.570 --> 00:00:50.030 align:middle line:90% books for the last 35 weeks. 00:00:50.030 --> 00:00:51.530 align:middle line:90% I mean, we're not used to that. 00:00:51.530 --> 00:00:52.370 align:middle line:90% We're poets. 00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:56.990 align:middle line:84% I mean, we publish a book of poems. 00:00:56.990 --> 00:01:02.780 align:middle line:84% And then we have boxes of books, of our own books at home. 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:07.700 align:middle line:84% That's what happens in the poetry world. 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:12.950 align:middle line:84% But this book uses, it's an anthology. 00:01:12.950 --> 00:01:17.720 align:middle line:84% And we have this amazing array of contributors 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:20.090 align:middle line:90% of poets and artists. 00:01:20.090 --> 00:01:24.560 align:middle line:84% And it's a very, very special kind of field guide. 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:30.230 align:middle line:84% It's an artistic field guide that actually was-- 00:01:30.230 --> 00:01:35.940 align:middle line:84% the genesis for this book comes from the Sonoran desert 00:01:35.940 --> 00:01:36.840 align:middle line:90% actually. 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:42.750 align:middle line:84% And it comes from Simmons Bunton being part of a literary field 00:01:42.750 --> 00:01:45.510 align:middle line:90% guide to the Sonoran desert. 00:01:45.510 --> 00:01:48.720 align:middle line:84% I think that was about maybe 8 or 10 years ago when 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:53.010 align:middle line:84% that book came out, and Simmons was one of the contributors. 00:01:53.010 --> 00:01:57.480 align:middle line:84% And ever since that happened, Simmons 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.960 align:middle line:84% had really been encouraging me to do something like that 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:04.620 align:middle line:90% for the Pacific Northwest. 00:02:04.620 --> 00:02:07.840 align:middle line:84% And then as we began working on it, 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.530 align:middle line:84% we realized it needed to be Cascadia 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:15.420 align:middle line:84% so that it could combine bio-regional ways of thinking 00:02:15.420 --> 00:02:18.250 align:middle line:90% with everything else it's doing. 00:02:18.250 --> 00:02:24.270 align:middle line:84% And as I was saying, it uses poetry, and visual art, 00:02:24.270 --> 00:02:31.140 align:middle line:84% and science written in an accessible, engaging manner 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:34.230 align:middle line:84% of voice that you're not used to hearing science in, 00:02:34.230 --> 00:02:37.290 align:middle line:84% and cultural knowledge, traditional ecological 00:02:37.290 --> 00:02:41.650 align:middle line:84% knowledge, in as many ways as possible, 00:02:41.650 --> 00:02:47.730 align:middle line:84% including how it's organized and the language that it uses, 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:50.370 align:middle line:90% to par-- 00:02:50.370 --> 00:02:54.990 align:middle line:84% And I'm paraphrasing Thomas Berry here, a marvelous 00:02:54.990 --> 00:02:56.280 align:middle line:90% philosopher-- 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:02.880 align:middle line:84% The book really reveals Cascadia as a communion of subjects, 00:03:02.880 --> 00:03:07.310 align:middle line:90% not a collection of objects. 00:03:07.310 --> 00:03:11.480 align:middle line:90% And it's so special. 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:15.326 align:middle line:90% And as Simmons mentioned-- 00:03:15.326 --> 00:03:16.080 align:middle line:90% what's this? 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:17.670 align:middle line:90% Hold it. 00:03:17.670 --> 00:03:18.170 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:03:18.170 --> 00:03:21.200 align:middle line:90% Yes, I'm getting confirmation. 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:24.170 align:middle line:84% The people at Mountaineers Press are 00:03:24.170 --> 00:03:28.670 align:middle line:84% saying that in honor of the 25th anniversary of Terrain.org, 00:03:28.670 --> 00:03:32.460 align:middle line:84% there is a 20% discount on Cascadia Field Guide tonight. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:36.350 align:middle line:84% So I do know that there is a box in Tucson. 00:03:36.350 --> 00:03:37.640 align:middle line:90% I'm not in Tucson. 00:03:37.640 --> 00:03:40.520 align:middle line:84% But there is a box of those books. 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:45.110 align:middle line:84% And honestly, it is so hard to get a hold of. 00:03:45.110 --> 00:03:48.410 align:middle line:84% I mean, 10,000 copies have found readers since March 1, 00:03:48.410 --> 00:03:50.270 align:middle line:90% when it was published. 00:03:50.270 --> 00:03:52.550 align:middle line:84% It's so hard to get a hold of that even 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:55.580 align:middle line:84% the great and powerful University of Arizona Bookstore 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:57.290 align:middle line:90% was not able to get copies. 00:03:57.290 --> 00:04:03.070 align:middle line:84% That's why I had Mountaineers ship a box directly to Simmons.