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Are You An Environmentalist, Or Do You Work For A Living? Working the Woods, Working the Sea: An Anthology of Northwest Writings, edited by Finn Wilcox and Jerry Gorsline. Empty Bowl Press, Port Townsend. $22 paperback.
In 1984 the predecessor of this anthology appeared, a modest collection of 125 pages, announcing a new generation of writersin the back country of the Pacific Northwest, and a new way of working and living there. It's a miracle any of it got written at all. And once written, that it got collected into a book.
The heart of its lesson came from tree-planting, probably the hardest work ever devised by human desperation. For getting back to the earth, like we used to say, it couldn't be beat. The only thing...