Elderberry Wine Vintage 2010
Writings from the Clark College Mature Learning Program
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Like the Creative Writing Class it springs from, this vintage ranges far and wide. Its offerings include not onlt the expected reflections on life and death and love and loss, but fictional ventures into other-sometimes bizarre-worlds, and meditations-often poetic-on the fantastic as well as the everyday. Let's change the metaphor and call it a banquet.
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About the Book
Elderberry Wine, Vintage 2010 is an anthology of student writing from the Mature Learning Program at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, offers something for everyone. The pieces in this collection range from Poetry–sonnets and haiku, free verse, meter and rhyme; to fiction both fanciful and serious; and nostalgia for the past and visions of the future. Come along on adventures in a swampy town in the American South in the 1930s, an apartment building in the squalid northwest Portland of the 1970s, and the lair of a drug lord in the Caribbean of the 1980s. Exploring all manner of topics, from the natural world to the lives of houses to human life and aging, this collection presents a wide range of unique views and perspectives on life with something for everyone. Looking for Love The little green lizard struts across the woman’s porch railing with a proprietary air, then suddenly stops and flicks down a flap of vermilion colored skin from his throat and freezes in place. He bobs his head up and down several times before moving on. Wordless—soundless but with such eloquence of expression does he signal his desire for a mate that, without conscious intent, the woman touches fingers to her throat, then catches herself and with a rueful smile, nods back. Herb Stokes, long-time creative writing student
About the Author
Deborah Guyol has taught creative writing in the Mature Learning Program at Clark College since 2002. She is a lawyer and writer as well as an editor, having co-authored The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering (3rd ed., 2003). She lives in Portland, Oregon.