Small Matters Mean the World (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Often David Memmott's poems course like a "river of wind" to take us to where the world of the everyday meets the startling world of the strange with all its dangers. Allying himself with natural forces and animal spirits, he fashions a bridge between these two worlds to achieve a hard-won communion. A sturdy, detailed observer, and a faithful guide to the reader, Memmott becomes, in his own words, "a sound bowl of pure gold rung by thunder."

-John Morrison, author of Monkey Island

David Memmott has been living and writing in the Pacific Northwest most of his life. His work explores views of the American West, personal and mythic, rural and progressive. His long poem, "Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West," from the collection Lost Transmissions, was a finalist for the Spur Award. Poems have appeared recently in basalt, Cirque, Gargoyle, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Poeming Pigeon, Triggerfish: A Critical Review, Weber: The Contemporary West and Willawaw Journal. He founded Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism and Wordcraft of Oregon. His digital art and other samples of his writings can be accessed through his website at: davidmemmott.com