Book Details
Poetry. Poet Tim McNulty served as lookout in Washington's North Cascades during the fire season of 2003. These poems and journal entries evoke the wild beauty and solitude he experienced during his time among the peaks.
Sample Poem:
Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout
A late-summer sun
threads the needles of McMillan Spires
and disappears in a reef of coral cloud.
Winds roil the mountain trees,
batter the shutter props.
I light a candle with the coming dark.
Its reflection in the window glass
flickers over mountains and
shadowed valleys
seventeen miles north to Canada.
Not another light.
The lookout is a dim star
anchored to a rib of the planet
like a skiff to a shoal
in a wheeling sea of stars.
Night sky at full flood.
Wildly awake.
Author Description
Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, conservation activist, and nature writer. A passionate spokesman for the wild, Tim remains active in the Northwest environmental community. Tim is the author of nine books of poetry and eleven books of natural history. He has co-authored, with photographer Pat O'Hara, an award-winning series of books on national parks. Tim's Olympic National Park: A Natural History, which won the Washington Governor's Writers Award, has just been reissued in a new revised edition by the University of Washington Press. His Washington's Mount Rainier National Park, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, is available from The Mountaineers Books. Tim's poetry is available from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press.
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