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 ccp 000The Clear Cut Future (an anthology) edited by Clear Cut Press 528 pp (with color and b&w illustrations) isbn: 0-9723234-1-4 $12.95
The Clear Cut Future maps the territory of interest to Clear Cut Press, more or less. It includes fiction, memoir, poetry, polemical essays, lyrical research, archival texts, photography, painting, and other arts. Among the contributors are Stacey Levine, Charles D'Ambrosio, Steve Weiner, Emily White, Rebecca Brown, Robert Glück, Pravin Jain (a former Enron executive), Casey Sanchez (a fish slimer), Wouter Vanstiphout (winner of the 2002 Masskant Prize for young architects), photographers Robert Adams and Ari Marcopoulos, painter Michael Brophy, many widely published authors, and others whom you'll know well in the future. Matt Briggs provides a specially commissioned index. "We are at the edge of a dark forest that 'Sometimes a Great Notion' only began to enter. We are in the middle of dark ethical problems that William Stafford only started to describe. Clear Cut's ambitious gathering of important writers promises to move us deeper into the forest, where we can start to deal with out Native American past, our complicated relationship with the land, with the new cities that we've built in a blink of historical time, with our particular place on the Pacific Rim." —Barry Johnson, The Oregonian "Small, artful, and thick with stories." —Michelle Tea, San Francisco Bay Guardian "The Clear Cut Future...made me a little lonesome for the Northwest, my old home. Robert Adams's photographs of clear cuts and the Office for Soft Architecture's essay on Rubus Armeniacus (the blackberry bush) reminded me that it was somehow easier to understand where I was, geographically speaking, when I was living in Portland." —Miranda July, Artforum (Top Ten)
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