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Other gift ideas: • 100% cotton casual clothing in rich, hand-dyed colors • Peruvian wool socks and gloves • original hand-printed and tie-dyed t-shirts • cards, holographic products, incense, candles • locally hand-crafted and imported jewelry • 20% off window prisms through December 7Lar449“ We, at the Banyan Tree, wish to extend our gratitude for your continued support and for making 1987 our best year yet. • We will be closing December 25 th until January 11th for vacation Banyan tree 485 E. 1346.485-0333 ■BOOKS Rich and brilliant collection Review by Deborah S. McGee Florilegia, A Retro spective of Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 1976-86 Calyx Books, Corvallis. Florilegia is a book to live with, to peek into for stretches at a time, find nourishment, then turn again to whatever it is you do creative. It’s a fine collection of works printed in the last decade in Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Wbmen. Florilegia has one of the most stringent qualities of what I con sider fine literature: it rings true. You’ll meet characters like people in real life, such as the feisty grandmother who handles a deadly situation with a quick mind in “Firewood,” an unforgettably suspenseful story by Marisha Chamberlain. In another story, “Crow,” a young Indian woman visits her grandmother, and writer Linda Hogan uses the situation to paint a portrait of a lost generation as solid as the earth. Hogan’s details are delicious: the white fuzz on the peppermints Grandma keeps in her apron pockets, and the crow with “warm black wings and eyes made of stolen corn.” Then there’s “The Last Fringie,” about a sort of bag lady. Author M. Ann Spiers never slips over in to the maudlin with her subject, avoids the temptation to roman ticize, and instead weaves the rough, earth-toned tapestry of a not-too-wealthy woman who lives on the fringe of Seattle’s university district. The university coffee shop, a nearby winery and visits from an 80-year old lover give her occasional forays into decadence— she lives a rich life and gets her needs met. Spiers’ design is as complex as her character, who finds that Imogen Cunningham’s photos in the campus gallery give her cataracts, and who resists an urge “to recite from Cat’s Cradle at open-air ministers on the green.” This story especially re minded me of the work of last century’s Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. These three stories are represen tative of the book’s other fine short stories and many poems, delivering memorable portraits and images. The book also contains a collection of black and white pho tographs of the work of women ar tists, mostly photography, prints, drawings and paintings. In the book you’ll also find a section of pages devoted to essays by women writers and artists. It’s all as if Tillie Olsen’s Silences has become passe: Women have found their voices. Some of the best are in Calyx Press’s Florilegia. Florilegia’s poetry is rich, a fulfilled “dream of a common lan guage,” as Adrienne Rich would put it. As elsewhere in the book, authors dare to explore topics for bidden, or travel into realms con sidered devoid of interest for serious literature. Saul Bellow beware: These women have created art out of elderly characters not viewed romantically or with pity, out of women’s love for other women, and out of domestic WANTED-WRIST WATCHES BUYING DEAD OR ALIVE w a Gruen Curvex, Patek Phillippe, Hamilton, I Rolex, Movado, Moonphase Wrist Watches ANDERSON WATCHMAKING 1677 Coburg Road, Eugene, Oregon Inside The Clock Shop—683-1349 scenes. Sharon Olds’ “The Lan guage of the Brag” is the first poem and first work in Florilegia, and a joyously healthy statement on the contributions of women artists. The latter brings instantly to mind one of the collection’s many exquisite and tempting (must see more of these) images: “The Day I Left My Vacuum Cleaner” by Paula King. If you have any curiosity about the book, merely open it to this photo, on page 23. King says worlds about what freedom means to a woman in this work of loving spirit combined with a sort of shrug of the should ers, as if to say, “Well, ’nuff said ’bout feminism, let’s get on with flying again.” Another fine image, and there are many in this book, is a Diane Arbus-plus portrait: “Shelly and Her Sister Mim.” Photographer Anne Noggle’s work reaffirms many of life’s choices for those who dare strike into new territory. The essays in the book least engaged me, but this may be because in a week’s time I con sume mass quantities of expository prose. It’s the part of the book, though, that I'll probably be drawn to again, at least that side of my personality which momentarily responded to Richard Bork, re jected Supreme Court nominee, when he expressed longing for an “intellectual feast.” There’s a richness in Florilegia that’s worthy of a book costing three times as much. It can rekin dle an interest in the literary for any who’ve been of that inclina tion. As a personal note, I found it turned me back to my own crea tive writing, and was hard to get through quickly for it led to such intriguing side-roads. What’s hap pening around us in indeed a cull ing, a gathering, as the book’s title means. The seeds were planted in the Sixties. The husks, or calyxes, have burst open, from which have sprung multitudes of graceful and brilliant blooms. Appropriately, Florilegia was published last spring. Read it for fresh inhalations of springtime-ness during those wet/cool evenings ahead. 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