Vivian Demuth’s novel ‘Eyes Of The Forest’ is available from Banff Book and Art Den, Cafe Books in Canmore, Western Wilderness Committee Store in Vancouver, Pages in Calgary,  www.mcnallyrobinson.com, Friends of Jasper Bookstore, www.bluestockings.com, or from Smoky Peace Press at www.smokypeacepress.com  and the poetry collection ‘Breathing Nose Mountain’ is available from St. Marks Books or from  www.longshot.org  Both books are also available at www.amazon.com     Please see ’Pages’ for a bio and contact information on Vivian Demuth.                                                                              

About Breathing Nose Mountain:

“This is a beautiful collection. I read through it thoroughly transported by Vivian Demuth’s Nose Mountain experience and her ability to transpose this into poetry. The opening long invocation poem is a stunner. The poem, ‘Tree Talk,’ that completes the sequence is an excellent place to end, ‘back within’ the experience, but with something that reaches beyond it, too.”                                        –Marilyn Hacker, author of Selected Poems: 1965-1990 and Desesperanto.     

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              Available from SmokyPeace Press

Eyes of the Forest engages the greatest issues of our age without pretension through the eyes of both human and non-human life. Set in Canada’s boreal forest, the fire lookouts, tree planters, loggers, and oil patch rounders inhabit a narrative that raises the stakes to Planet Earth itself. Here are women sketching their identities on the front lines of an ecological and ideological battle–robust, soulful, revolutionary women, harbingers of a new mythology. Some of the men are lost or searching souls, ghosts of that dying culture of Adam’s right to dominion. At the heart of it all, a young woman and young man struggle for a love as beautiful and precarious as the wilderness around them. Passionate, exotic, and slightly apocalyptic, the novel challenges that American myth of “taming the West.”  

“Demuth’s debut novel is a breath of fresh air. Her prose is wonderfully descriptive and confident, an ode to nature in its most primal form. City dwellers such as myself are reminded of what we do not know about the wild, and what we are all at risk of losing in our selfish shortsightedness.”  –Kaylie Jones, award-winning author of Speak Now and A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries

 UPCOMING READINGS

Vivian Demuth will be reading from Eyes of the Forest at Bluestocking Books in Manhattan NY on January 20th, 2008 at 7pm.

APRIL 4, 2008 - FUSION ART GALLERY, MANHATTAN at 7 pm

April 12, 2008 - Ottawa Chapters Bookstore on Rideau at noon

APRIL 13, 2008 - The OTTAWA  International Writers Festival on Sunday 13 April at 4pm at the National Library and Archives, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.

April 14, 2008 - The downtown main brain Ottawa Public Library at 7pm.

MAY 6th 2008- CANMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY 7pm 

MAY 7th 2008 - BANFF PUBLIC LIBRARY 7pm

MAY 8th 2008 - CALGARY at OOLONG TEAHOUSE, 110  10 St. hosted by Flywheel at 7pm.

“This is a fun, people-filled story that will appeal to anyone who’s ever lived out in the mountains, and to anyone who’s wondered what it would be like.”–Levi Asher, litkicks.com (For the entire review, please see “A Review of Eyes of the Forest” under the Blogroll.)

“In this wonderful debut novel, ‘Eyes of the Forest’ is a metaphor for the consciousness inside a nature that suffers environmental abuse, making the book an arresting experiment in the techniques of magical realism. The heroine’s odyssey is absorbing, and the love story as gripping as the machinations of environmental politics….Profound and page-turning.”        -Lyn Di Iorio, author of Killing Spanish and Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center

DEER TAKING TIBETAN PRAYER FLAGS FROM A FIRELOOKOUT, a VIDEO

   SEE-    www.youtube.com/viviandemuth

BOOK TOUR 2007

Vivian Demuth will be reading from her novel, Eyes of the Forest, as part of a Western Canada 2007 Spring Book Tour. Most of the readings will take place in public libraries, with a few colleges, bookstores, and galleries as well. The tour begins in Grande Prairie on April 23rd then travels through B.C. and Saskatchewan and ends on May 14th in Dawson Creek.

Here are the dates, times, and places:

* April 23, Grande Prairie, Regional College, Rm C224, 7:30 pm *  April 24, Hinton Public Library, 7:00 pm *  April 26, Vancouver, Library Main Branch, 7:30 pm *  April 28,  Duncan, Cowichan Public Library, 2  pm * April 29, Victoria, Oak Bay Library, 2  pm  * April 30, Abbotsford, Clearbrook Library, 7:00 pm  * May 1, New Westminster, Public Library, 7:00 pm * May 2, Kamloops, Kamloops Library, 7:00 pm * May 3, Calgary, Central Library, 7:00 pm  *  May 5, Lethbridge, Public Library, 12 noon  *  May 6, Medicine Hat, Medicine Hat Library, 3 pm  * May 7, Regina, Public Library, 7:00 pm * May 8, Saskatoon, McNally Robinson Books, 7 pm * May 10, Edmonton, Whitemud Crossing Library, 7:00 pm  *  May 11, Strathcona County Library, Sherwood Park,  7:00 pm * May 12, Edmonton , Stanley A. Milner Library, 2 p.m. *  May 15, Dawson Creek, Gallery, 7:00 pm *