Another book, more honors for Grays River writer

There are some exciting things happening for Grays River writer Robert Michael Pyle. Two books, one new, one old, have been included in a couple prestigious lists. He has two new books out.

And he's headed to Cuba.

One new tome is Through a Green Lens: Fifty Years of Writing for Nature. It is a collection of essays, including his first, published for the first time. Foreword Reviews has included it in its Top Ten University Press Picks.

Chinook & Chanterelle is his most recent volume of poems. The words were written while Pyle grappled with the loss of his wife, Thea, but he's quick to point out that it's not all about grief and death. It's about joy and life as well.

His book, The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland was included with works by Theodore Roosevelt, John Krakauer and William Stafford in "15 books every well-versed Westerner should read," a list from High Country News. The Thunder Tree was published in 1993.

Chinook & Chanterelle and Through a Green Lens are available for purchase at Redmen Hall in Skamokawa.