Lovesong for Dufur: Poems

In Lovesong for Dufur, Penelope Scambly Schott tells the intriguing story of buying a modest old house in an out-of-the-way, east-of-the-mountains Oregon town. The town, Dufur, is small enough that everyone knows what necessities are in the food bank," toilet paper and laundry soap," and "who shot whom." It is the sort of town people often refer to as in the middle of nowhere, but she falls in love with the place and makes it her own, affirming that "There is No Blue Like This Blue Sky over Dufur." These charming and original poems are enough to make you want to go in search of your own alternate life in the wonderful Western nowhere.