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Ill-fated strangers, David and Marti, turn their backs to their lives and take to the road on a quest to cross-off off her dying wish: to see the Pacific Ocean. Pacific snapshots their journey from an AIDS support group in Minnesota, through the Black Hills, past Devil's Tower, over the painted mountains of Idaho and onward to Cannon Beach. Along the way, they discover the life still clinging to their bones and the unexpected love they have sown each day they near the Pacific.

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"""The characters in Scott Welvaert's poems travel west, from Minnesota to Oregon, on a quest to reach the ocean before they die. No matter what began it, their journey enters the larger parade of American journeys, where landscape offers itself as a stage for ceremonies of escape, disappearance, forgiveness, rebirth. While the future ""keeps the car running outside,"" Welvaert's characters rush toward their fate even as they seem to evade it, in poems tender and elegiac, poems full of clear-eyed detail and music informed by compassion, gravity, and grace."" -Richard Robbins, author of The Untested Hand and Other Americas ""Here, images proceed on their own journey to some place off the map. Here, metaphor leaps and grabs at the wind. An occasion for drama, pyrotechnics and language that pops and starts, Welvaert's road trip West makes us want to do as its young and desperate protagonists and take off our shoes ""to feel the world again, to step on the jagged rock."" -Richard Terrill, author of Coming Late to Rachmaninoff and Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz"

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Scott Welvaert lives in Minnesota with his wife, two daughters and a deaf husky named Rocket. He has authored numerous books, including The Curse of the Wendigo, The Mosquito King, The Alabaster Ring, Grotesque, and The 13th Floor. An avid outdoorsman and comic book nerd, he enjoys writing stories that bend the fabric of reality and offer something more than this world can conjure.

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