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Twenty-eight new poems by Oregon poet and naturalist Alan Contreras. Themes include the outdoor world, the gay experience, fantasias on water, birth, mountains and the end of life, including a memorial poem and several about human transitions.

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""Alan Contreras is a rare breed: a true man of letters! Whether his works center on ornithology, education, cultural criticism, or queer literary iconography, Contreras asks the essential questions of his readers. In The Other Side of the Fire, a central question spins on its axle: Who are we, who have we been, and who might we be when measured against machinations of time? The answers in these poems are slippery, often irreconcilable, and always-and importantly-unguardedly human. Sorrow and violence are entwined with their unruly counterparts: the erotic, the everyday, the musical, the animal, the sacred."" - Michael McGriff, author of Angel Sharpening its Beak

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