Currently I am at work on three books: a poetry collection whose working title is “Sacraments of the Flesh,” a collective biography titled “Rogues and Renegades in the Evergreen State,” and a recently funded critical biography of Annie Dillard.
In 2023. I finished writing Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist, a first-person book of creative nonfiction. While visiting Albania, Austria, the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, French Polynesia, Hawai’i, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, Spain, and Thailand, I came to regard travel as the most poorly regulated industry on the planet. In France I delivered these three presentations:
- “Thinking Like a River,” Ecopoetics Perpignan, Perpignan, France, June 23, 2016.
- “The Contested Grounds of North American Rodeo.” Center for Western U.S. Asia/Pacific Studies. Sorbonne Université Paris. Nov. 12, 2004.
- “An Iconography of Sabotage.” Center for Western U.S. and Asia/Pacific Studies. Sorbonne Université Paris. November 8, 2002.
