Bøger af Grant Jones

THE SKOOKUMCHUCK POEMS, is a collection of 30 poems written over a fifty-four year period. The poems spring from the sounds, gulfs, straits, channels, passages, canals, great-bends, reaches, passes, narrows, rapids, harbors, inlets, bays, bights, coves, landings, banks, holes, deeps, boundary-be aches, lagoons, tidal creeks, sandbars, tideflats, mudflats, deltas, spits, distributaries, logjams, looped meanders, braidworks, backsloughs, tributary rivers, waterfalls, creeks, swamps, marshes, fens, salt-prairies, guzzles, seabluffs, terraces, bald and ledges, peninsulas, heads, points, cliffs, rocks, reef islands and tombolos of the Salish Sea estuary. "Each landscape's fractal design code is part of the genes of a place...each regional landscape creates its own words and language...on the beach the pungent smell of the driftlogs, dried seaweed, crusty sand, and flinty shells on the salt breeze wrap the clouds and waves, ships and seagulls into a fragrant veil of edible, swishing sunlight...a place to learn escape can be discovery." "When the tide went out, there was a vast tideflat in front of my house; I was a beach kid and my home place shaped my DNA, its biology formed my language. The architecture of my landscape and the architecture of my poems became one and the same." The book includes sketches by the author and a photo of the author. Grant Jones

Voices of Coyote Springs Farm is a book of 30 poems written at Coyote Springs Farm with sketches from the poet and dedicated to: those who speak for clouds, creeks, canyons, critters, trees, old buildings, and all those people who passed this way before whose souls are listening still. Author's Preface: I live with my wife, Chong, on a farm nestled in the canyon mouth of a long string of foothills which crowd the eastern side of the narrow valley floor of the North Central tributary of the Columbia River called the Okanogan, which in the Interior Salish languages means, "meeting place." Here people of over a dozen of the original tribes still provide leadership to the rest of us who make up this diverse community of Okanogan Country. The foothills where I write form the leading edge of the metamorphosed granitic Okanogan Highlands, a skyward savanna which is the southern finger of the Monashee Range of the Columbia Mountains of British Columbia. A mile to the west across our narrow valley, the limestone faces of the North Cascade Mountains advance inevitably toward us. Like all living things, this landscape has always needed partners, needed caretakers, stewards. It welcomed us when we came over from the San Juan Islands during the summer of 2006 and it sized us up right away. And it continues to give us advice now. In fact over the last twelve years it has quieted us and kept us in one piece. Grant Jones

Settling trust disputes without litigation can save all parties legal costs and maintain confidentiality (reducing the risk of unwelcome publicity). ADR and Trusts is a development from the authors' accredited mediation training course for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Part A introduces the reader to the different forms of dispute resolution, and examines the differences between arbitration and mediation of trust and fiduciary disputes. The mediation process is explained, including: the role of professional advisors, and the tools and techniques for mediation. The authors examine ways of avoiding disputes, cross-border aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), the psychological factors affecting mediation, the mediator's powers to mediate and settle disputes, and ethical issues in Trust ADR. Islamic and Sharia Trust ADR is also considered, with close study of the developing approaches in Canada and the UK. Part B examines 27 jurisdictions and how trust law and ADR operates in each of them. The jurisdictions covered are: Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, The British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cyprus, England and Wales, Florida, France, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Panama, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Each profile addresses: arbitration law and practice, trust law, the mandatory requirements for mediation and the enforcement of ADR awards. Mediators, arbitrators, trust and estate planning practitioners, trust managers and anyone involved in trust disputes should all benefit from reading this book.

IN LOVE WITH YOUR PLACE is a collection of 62 poems written over a twenty-year period with a few initial poems from fifty years back. Poems are presented in four chapters: There Are Words, Birds Seem To Know You, The Footbridge, and Rivers Have A Heart. The poems spring from places inhabited by the author, landscapes of deep attachment where he was born as well as places he has resided or worked as a landscape architect and conservation planner. Although these places include Alaska's Susitna Basin, the Salish Sea Estuary, the Sonoran Desert, Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass, the Georgia Piedmont, Peru's Antiplano, Chile's Tierra del Fuego, South Wales, Ireland, and the Amazon River, the majority spring from the Okanogan Country north of the Big Bend of the Columbia - especially Coyote Springs Farm at the mouth of the canyon of the Little Mosquito where he now resides. "Landscapes have always reached out to me. I feel the passion for life inside them, and this has given me the words to become very attached to the landscapes of my Mother Earth. Like all living things, landscapes need partners. They need caretakers to appreciate their expressiveness and stewards to reciprocate with them to increase their energy and fullness at every scale from the garden to the region. I put this book together to celebrate my love affair with the landscape and to capture the magnetism possible between its partners. The title pretty much says it all. This book is not a book of love poetry, although there are a few poems in it that I wrote to women I loved. The land gives me a voice, so this book also contains a few poems written by particular landscapes toward their surrounding landscapes, as well as poems between particular landscapes and particular people. Every landscape has its code, and if you fall in love with it and give it a voice, the poems you unearth from it will forever give you a place to stand as partner and friend and lover." The book includes sketches by the author and his wife Chong and a photo of the author.

OKANOGAN POEMS volume 3 Landscapes Are Observatories Poetry, Anthologies, 50 poems, 100 pages with sketches, photos and map. A Collection of eighteen poets: Julie Ashmore, George Baumgardner, Patti Baumgardner, Katharine Bill, Reed Engle, Bob Goodwin, Walter Henze, Dan Hulphers, Carey Hunter, Grant Jones, Victoria Jones, Mike Robinson, Roger Rosenblatt, William Slusher, Kathleen Smith, Dale Swedberg, Todd Thorn, and Sandy Vaughn. "This, the third volume of Okanogan Poems continues the tradition, established with the first two volumes, of celebrating hidden places in the watershed of the Okanogan River. It does that because the co-editor, Grant Jones, both a published poet and world renowned landscape architect, has come to this understanding with the wisdom of his years: by celebrating places we can influence their outcome. The Okanogan Valley and its Eastern Highlands, a rural self sufficient region of high desert, lies in North Central Washington, in Okanogan County - the largest county in Washington and one of the largest in the lower 48 states. The valley is well east of the Puget Sound megalopolis and the North Cascades. It is a magical place. These poems are a celebration of not only the land, but also the peoples of the region." Walter Henze Co-Editor "All of these watersheds are alive with touchstone people: traditional native people of dozens of Native American tribes and First People bands, pioneer homesteaders, horse and cattle ranchers, enterprising town founders, fruit orchardists, vintners, organic farmers, carpenters, mountain hermits, poets, folk singers and those who just came to live on the land as landscape stewards. This place has not lost its stories nor its spirits, and they keep evolving. It supports a rare, interconnected community of diverse people committed to hard work, cooperation, artistic expression and social tolerance." Grant Jones Co-Editor "The Okanogan Land Trust has been encouraging poetry of this place for eight years by hosting an annual Poetry Evening of readings by local poets. A number of the poems in this volume first appeared here. Poems are from the Similkameen, the Kettle, the Sanpoil, the Okanogan, the Methow, and the Chief Joseph-Columbia and celebrate the nature of the American Okanogan, giving a voice to its scenic landscapes seen through the eyes of poets that inhabit or regularly explore the hidden valleys of this sequestered region."