Dressing in the Dark
This is a powerful new work by former Washington Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken. Lynx House Press $24.95 / 978-0-89924-204-0 / Hdb. / 76 pages (November 2025) $16.95 / 978-0-89924-208-8 / Pbk. / 76 pages
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Sergeant Dark
Henry Hughes’ Sergeant Dark carries us to the edge of the war in Ukraine and deep into Antarctica. These poems take us shark fishing and bird watching, and into the bar and bedroom. They offer honest, humorous, and hard looks…
Long Eyes
Khrystia Vengryniuk’s Long Eyes is a collection of poems that guides us through the labyrinths of loneliness, where pain drifts like the wind and voices fade yet still echo on the edges of silence. It is both a confession that…
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment
A professional geologist offers a detailed and accessible presentation of Lewis and Clark Trail geology, delving deep into the geological formations, geomorphic features, and past geological upheavals and catastrophic events, paying attention to the science as it existed in the…
The Mountain Runners
An endurance competition unlike any in their day or likely any since, this is the incredible true story of America's first mountain adventure race. Intending to showcase the region, organizers created a grueling challenge of strength, stamina, resourcefulness, and skill.…
Marvelous Wings
Connecting science with personal observations while also conveying the delight, healing, and passion that birds can bring to people, Thomas Bancroft shares from a human as well as an ornithologist’s perspective. His essays explore species and places across the Pacific…
Seattle in the Great Depression
Capturing stories from Seattle newspapers and other sources, this narrative history traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture—from the city’s real estate depression, savings and loan failures, and waterfront Hooverville, to its…
Ron Hilbert č̓adəsqidəb
Chronicling the life and work of Coast Salish artist Ron Hilbert, this biography provides an astute perspective on a courageous and controversial contemporary Native artist. Native American Art Bibliography / illustrations / 8.5 x 11 / 158 pages Published by…
Secret Work
Secret Work is interested in hidden labor of all sorts, from the work of a wage-earner in a big box store, to the work of mothering as a single parent, to the work of introspection and writing poems. These strands…
If I Had Said Beauty
If I Had Said Beauty, Tami Haaland’s fourth collection of poetry, is dedicated to “known and unknown” ancestors. It explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self—including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and…
Sprezzatura
This collection of poems is about the natural and accidental and the way in which they collaborate in our thought, our history, our lives, and in the very stars. Pacific Northwest Poetry Series Lynx House Press $18.95 / 978-0-89924-201-9 /…
Washington Comes of Age
Nine noted regional and national experts explore Washington’s coming of age. Former governor and senator Daniel J. Evans, political correspondent Louis Cannon, and Gordon Hirabayashi provide personal reflections upon state history. Other contributors include Patricia Nelson Limerick, Howard R. Lamar,…
Algometry
Algometry is a lyrical portrait of the generation of Ukrainians who grew up and were shaped by the common and individual painful inner and outer experiences, to become the most resilient and brave nation. Algometry is a term of physiology…
Chasing Wildlife Secrets
Professional wildlife biologist Scott McCorquodale observed the natural world from a unique and intimate perspective. His compelling, dramatic, and detailed accounts describe forty years of research on Pacific Northwest bears, deer, elk, and moose. He and his colleagues spent hours…
Listening to the Birds
“Later in the night, I felt another stirring inside me. Something I had buried and denied for over twenty years began to make itself heard. I cried out, ‘Who am I? Am I Indian—or am I white?’ I heard a…
Hardhat Days
Broke and miserable, recent college graduate Mike Nolan signed on as a shipyard laborer and discovered that the most worthwhile education often happens outside of a classroom. After he lied about his qualifications, kind-hearted coworkers took him under their wing,…
A Ukrainian Dictionary of War
In 2022, poet Ostap Slyvynsky undertook the role of wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine. Among the voices represented in A Ukrainian Dictionary of War are those who were…
Seattle Neon
In Seattle, beloved neighborhood institutions, unique buildings and businesses are disappearing at a furious pace, and along with them, Seattle’s neon heritage. Seeing those losses motivated local photographer and history enthusiast Matt Hucke to capture a full-color collection of more…
Skiing with Dostoyevsky
Skiing for Dostoyevsky is comprised of poems from the author’s nine previously published collections, plus thirty-two new poems. Lynx House Press $26.95 / 978-0-89924-198-2 / Pbk. / 180 pages / 2024
The Bear’s Mouth
These are lyrical and exact poems of mother love, suffering, and exaltation. Their precision and emotional clarity make reading them an intimate and ultimately transcendent experience such as a book of poems can rarely provide. Lynx House Press $18.95 /…