Friends publish Pacific Northwest poetry book
Book features local scenes
BY MORGAN GRINDY
James Tweedie and David Campiche are
like a pair of mismatched socks.
The duo of p oets and friends recently
released their new book, “Sidekicks:
Visions of the Pacifi c Northwest.”
‘Sidekicks: Visions of the Pacifi c Northwest’
‘Sidekicks’ is available at Amazon, Time Enough Books and
Adelaide’s Coff ee House & Yarn Shop.
The book commemorates their appre-
ciation for the Pacifi c Northwest through
poetry and photography that represents the
lower Columbia River to southern Alas-
ka. The poems contextualize the images that
encompass life among the Pacifi c. Coastal
Morgan Grindy
Authors James Tweedie and David Campiche.
sunsets and cloudy skies are interwoven with shells
and creatures, rivers and tides and the occasional
human.
One of Tweedie’s featured poems, “My Life is
Lived Beneath a Dancing Sky,” states , “My life is
lived beneath a dancing sky, where tutu-ed, toe-tip
clouds of white and gray plie their way across the
stage each day, and wink and blink the sun as they
pass.”
Tweedie said the book’s images and poems are
descriptive, rather than declarative. He said that
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the work doesn’t take any kind of stance but instead
explores.
“My hope would be that the words and pictures that
I’ve created would somehow connect with the person’s
own experience,” Tweedie said. “That we somehow
could trigger a familiarity, a common experience that we
share. I know that’s what I fi nd in David’s work.”
Campiche agreed, adding his poems make a statement
about his existence.
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