In luminous language, Ruth F. Harrison brings us, in "West of 101," a spirited collection of poems celebrating a narrow strip of rocky coastline along the Pacific in Oregon. A reader breathes salt wind, clambers among black stones and into sea caves, follows the moves of sandpiper and turnstone, whether making tracks on the sand or in breath-taking flight. Natives of the area will revel in familiar wonders. Readers who have never been near any ocean...
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