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Nita Countryman’s chapbook The Origin of Bear can be ordered from Amazon.com.

If you’d like to receive a copy of the book signed by the author, you can order directly from her.

Please e-mail Nita at ncountr@pacifier.com. (Shipping and handling charges will be waived.)

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Praise for The Origin of Bear:

“In The Origin of Bear Nita Countryman offers poems that enact place in all its fullness and its multiple strands. In her poems the personal, the communal, and the life of the physical world braid together into a powerful whole of what it is to be from and of the Pacific Northwest now. In the best poems there is always something new, something that we sense is permanent, something we will not forget. At times quiet, often playful, always joyously and deeply imagined, these poems are ‘best poems.’”

-- Tim Hunt - poet, critic, and editor of the five-volume Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford UP)

“Nita Countryman's spirited poetry artfully blends the ordinary and the natural. Her keen observation of nature illuminates and blesses even the most mundane.”

-- Ellen Waterston - winner of the 2005 WILLA Award in Poetry for "I Am Madagascar," Ice River Press, 2004

Author of the award-winning memoir Then There Was No Mountain, Rowman Littlefield, 2003

“Nita Countryman’s poems evoke the landscape of many places in the Pacific Northwest by reflecting so exactly the place where she lives near Brush Prairie, Washington. Her work reflects the joy of a life interwoven with the birds, animals, trees and people of this world, with a generosity of spirit that animates every line. She reminds us who we are by her deep attention to where we live. The freshness of her perspective is gift that her poetic skills make accessible to us all.”

-- Bill Siverly – poet, author of The Turn, and co-editor of Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place

Nita’s poetry chapbook The Origin of Bear was recently released by Finishing Line Press.

Special acknowledgement for the cover of The Origin of Bear:

Photographer Jeff Rauch of Vancouver, Washington gave permission for use of his photograph

“Wednesday Morning” on the cover. This stunning and memorable photo was taken at sunrise

in Yosemite. © Jeff Rauch