“‘This is the beauty I want to give you,’ writes Anna Odessa Linzer at one point in Season Unleashed. With the acute sensibilities of the cold-water swimmer she is, Linzer’s formidable gifts as a poet and writer immerse us in the seasonal cycles of what it means to be fully alive along the shores of the Salish Sea. The verdant language, sometimes bearing the shadow play of loss and longing, incarnates our green world. To borrow from Keats, here we have a writer’s pointed courage to honor her loyalty to the most difficult beauty of all — ‘the holiness of the heart’s affections.’”—Mike Dillon, author of Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island's Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor 

“Season Unleashed is full of deeply resonating truth and beauty about the natural world around us and the gifts of memory that tie it and those we love to us. Those familiar with the Pacific Northwest will find joyful recognitions (and discoveries). Those unfamiliar with the Pacific Northwest will find joyful discoveries (and recognitions). There is storytelling in the poetry, and poetry in the storytelling. Gratitude and appreciation, once again, to Anna Odessa Linzer.” —Brian Lynch, Shaw Island poet

“Anna Linzer’s poetry is absolutely magnificent. It breathes from the earth and waters of the Pacific Northwest. Joyful, painful—and always beautiful. Her poems want to be read over, and over and over again. Season Unleashed is a gift to be treasured.” —Elizabeth Huddle, retired artistic director, Intiman Theatre, Seattle, and Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon.

“Anna Odessa Linzer’s poetry echoes the depth of the Pacific Northwest rainforest. She reminds us that we are time, we are fish, river, seed, rain, sky, moon and ‘all the seasons dancing through us.’” —Dorothée Perret, publisher and editor of PARIS LA

Season Unleashed, a new collection of poems by American Book Award-winning novelist and poet Anna Odessa Linzer, evokes the dramatic yet subtle beauty of the Salish Sea bioregion in intimate detail based on the author’s long acquaintance, close attention, and deep reflection. As seasons unfold, light and shadow shimmer, revealed in fine details of place, bringing cedar, salal, tansy, and ghost berry to life in lyrical poems and prose passages. With a keen awareness born of the familiarity of paths and beaches she walks daily, the poet turns her attentive gaze equally to shell, bone, feather, river, and mountain. Memories surface, linking past and present as the poet’s Norwegian-Lenape heritage and her life on the Suquamish Port Madison Indian Reservation intertwine. A long-distance, cold-water swimmer, Anna Linzer glides through the seasons in the cool blue-green waters she calls home, inviting us to join her in her powerful, deep immersion.

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