{"product_id":"too-late-to-turn-back-now-prose-poems-1980-2016-prose-poems-9780912887524","title":"Too Late to Turn Back Now: Prose \u0026 Poems 1980-2016: Prose \u0026 Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA legendary figure in Pacific Northwest literary communities, Finn Wilcox's new collection contains: his classic \u003cem\u003eHere Among the Sacrificed\u003c\/em\u003e with poignant photographs by Steve R. Johnson, the poems from \u003cem\u003eNine Flower Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, detailing travels in China with noted translator Red Pine; \u003cem\u003eLesson Learned, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eNot Letting Go\u003c\/em\u003e, a suite of new poems and stories. In the Olympic and Cascade Mountains for twenty-five years, Wilcox planted over a million trees, and traveled on freight trains up and down the West coast and in the mountains of China finding Buddhist hermits. With Jeremiah Gorsline, he edited \u003cem\u003eWorking the Wood, Working the Sea: An Anthology of Northwest Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom hobo jungles alongside the railroad yards of the American West to the cave of a hermit nun on a mountain in China, from the hard-scrabble life of Pacific Northwest tree-planters to the tenderest of love lyrics, these poems and prose anecdotes sparkle like little gems... Quirky. Luminous. Authentic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Clemens Starck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO lucky you! O lucky world! this new book by Finn Wilcox includes all his railroad masterpiece Here Among the Sacrificed. -Bob Arnold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories and poems are the sort I'd expect to find someday among the men's clothing at Goodwill: survivors of the real world, not something I'd wear to a job interview. -Bill Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilcox is refreshingly modest in his approach, and his language carries the tempo and vernacular of common speech. At one point he refers to his own poems as 'A lucky pull\/of the rabbit\/ from a hat.' But it's not luck -Tim McNulty, \u003cem\u003eCascadia Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whether in journals, stories, poems, Wilcox is always accessible, passionate, sometimes serious, sometimes funny and sometimes seriously funny, instructive in the ways of living a good life, a life of conscious choices, without being preachy or pedagogical.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Larry Lawrence, \u003cem\u003eRaven Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wilcox comes across as both a straightforward and a complicated fellow - attracted to both trouble and beauty, rambling and family, the work of the body and the work of the mind.\"-Bill Yake, \u003cem\u003ePacific Rim Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15483359\"\u003eFinn D. 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